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Pompey's Pillar & the Serapeum
A 27-metre red granite column standing over the ruins of Alexandria's greatest temple.
About
The column is a single shaft of Aswan granite, 20.5 metres of it in one piece, raised on the acropolis where the Serapeum stood. Around it lie the temple foundations, two granite sphinxes, a Nilometer and the underground galleries that held part of the daughter library of Alexandria.
History
Raised in 297 AD for the emperor Diocletian, and nothing to do with Pompey — Crusaders assumed his ashes were in a pot on top, and the name stuck. The Serapeum itself was destroyed by a Christian mob in 391 AD.
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