Pompey's Pillar

Pompey's Pillar ascends from the remnants of the old and celebrated Serapeion, which was once used to store the flood of original copies from the Great Library of Alexandria. Today the main single segment denotes the site of what was at one time an enormous and expand sanctuary, which was built of marble and brightened with valuable metals on the inside. A portion of the passages around the complex remain and are open for travelers to investigate and a portion of the antiquities from the sanctuary have been recuperated. A daily existence size dark basalt bull from the sanctuary and a brilliant plaque denoting the establishment of the Serapis are in plain view in the Greco-Roman Museum.

This segment of red Aswan rock with a Corinthian capital, remaining on a gravely demolished foundation and ascending to a stature of very nearly 27 meters, really has nothing to do with Pompey and was rather set up in AD 292 out of appreciation for Diocletian, who provided nourishment for the destitute populace after the attack of the city.

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