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Pompey's pillar

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: granite, extant remains

A Roman triumphal column in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/941771944

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.1830845, 29.8970825

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Pompey's pillar (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Pompey’s Pillar (English, modern)

Pompey's pillar makes connections with:

Pompey's pillar located at Alexandria (unspecified date range)
Pompey's pillar part of (physical/topographic) Serapeum of Alexandria (330 BC - 30 BC)

Pompey's pillar receives connections from:

None

Place type:
monument

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Pompey's pillar: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/941771944> [accessed: 21 November 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/941771944 |title=Places: 941771944 (Pompey's pillar) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=November 21, 2024 10:24 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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