Colonna di Foca
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Colonna di Foca
From the album Rome to Pompeii
ca. 1880
Albumen silver print
Image: 10 3/8 × 7 15/16 in. (26.4 × 20.1 cm)
Mount: 10 11/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.2 × 35.3 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Phil Porter
Inscriptions Printed in image, BL: 231. COLONNA DI FOCA
Inscribed in black ink on mount, L and R: B. 219–223. Column of Phocas, the last new monument erected in \ the Forum in 608. The rudeness of the architecture distinctly betrays the \ degraded taste of the period. It is 54 ft in hight [sic] erected in honor of the \ tyrant Phocas of the Eastern Empire, by the exarch Smaragdus having been \ taken from him by some older building. It was formerly crowned by \ gilden statue of Phocas This column was Byrons "nameless column \ with a buried base," and was disinterred in 1813.
Inscribed in black ink on mount, L and R: B. 219–223. Column of Phocas, the last new monument erected in \ the Forum in 608. The rudeness of the architecture distinctly betrays the \ degraded taste of the period. It is 54 ft in hight [sic] erected in honor of the \ tyrant Phocas of the Eastern Empire, by the exarch Smaragdus having been \ taken from him by some older building. It was formerly crowned by \ gilden statue of Phocas This column was Byrons "nameless column \ with a buried base," and was disinterred in 1813.
