Sepulchral COLUMN

Sepulchral COLUMN, anciently was a column erected on a tomb or sepulchre, with an inscription on its base. Those over the tombs of persons of distinction were very large; those for the common people small: these last are called stelæ and cippi.

Statuary

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Columbus. Statuary COLUMN, that which supports a statue. Such was that erected by pope Paul V. on a pedestal before the church of St Maria at Rome; to support a statue of the Virgin, which is of gilt brass. This column was dug up in the temple of peace; its shaft is a single block of white marble 49$\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ feet high, and five feet eight inches diameter, of the Corinthian order.

The term statuary column may likewise be applied to caryatides, perians, termini, and other human figures, which do the office of columns; and which Vitruvius calls telamones, and atlantes. See ARCHITECTURE, n^o 59.