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Column of Antoninus Pius is unveiled

161 CE · Italy, Europe · Culture

Column of Antoninus Pius is unveiled
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The Column of Antoninus Pius is a Roman honorific column in Rome, Italy, devoted in AD 161 to the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, in the Campus Martius, on the edge of the hill now known as Monte Citorio, and set up by his successors, the co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. The column itself is now destroyed, but its base is preserved.

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