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*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 1563]

*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 1563]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1 a : the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassic column — see column illustration

*1 a : the [[support]] or foot of a late [[classic]] or neoclassic column

:b : the base of an upright structure

:b : the base of an upright [[structure]]

*2 : base, foundation

*2 : base, foundation

*3 : a position of esteem

*3 : a position of [[esteem]]

 

==Description==

==Description==

Although in Syria, Asia Minor and Tunisia the Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or propylaea on square '''pedestals''', in [[Rome]] itself they were employed only to give greater importance to isolated columns, such as those of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column Trajan] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius Antoninus], or as a podium to the columns employed decoratively in the Roman triumphal arches.

Although in Syria, Asia Minor and Tunisia the Romans occasionally raised the columns of their temples or propylaea on square '''pedestals''', in [[Rome]] itself they were employed only to give greater importance to isolated columns, such as those of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column Trajan] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius Antoninus], or as a podium to the columns employed decoratively in the Roman triumphal arches.