Column of Antoninus Pius (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)

found: Work cat.: Vogel, L. Column of Antoninus Pius, 1973(now installed in the Cortile della Pigna, Vatican Palace, Vatican City)

found: Bartoli, P.S. Colonna Aureliana : la Colonna di Marco Aurelio et il basamento della Colonna Antonina, 2018:t.p. (Colonna Antonina) pp. 87-91 (plates depicting the base of Colonna Antonina, the only remaining part of this column)

found: Wikipedia, Aug. 7, 2019(The Column of Antoninus Pius (Italian: Colonna di Antonino Pio) 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. Previous to the 18th century the base was completely buried, but the lower part of the shaft projected about 6m above the ground. In 1703, the rest of the column and the base were discovered and excavated. The column was raised from the ground but no decision was made about its use. It remained lying on the ground under some sheds, and was damaged by fire in 1759. Unsuccessful attempts were made to repair it soon afterwards in 1764, with some pieces from it being used in 1789 to restore the obelisk of Augustus that is now in the Piazza di Monte Citorio. Meanwhile, the base (of white Italian marble) was restored in 1706-08 and erected in the centre of Piazza di Montecitorio in 1741, before being taken to the Vatican Museums in 1787, where it has been in the Michelangelo niche in the Cortile della Pigna from 1885 until its final move to its current position in the courtyard outside the entrance to the Vatican Pinacoteca)

found: Platner, S.B. Topographical dictionary of ancient Rome, 1929, via WWW, Aug. 7, 2019:p. 131 (Columna Antonini Pii; a column, erected in memory of Antoninus Pius by his two adopted sons, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. It stood in the campus Martius, on the edge of the elevation now known as Monte Citorio. The column was a monolith of red granite, 14.75 metres in height and 1.90 in diameter, and was quarried in 106 A.D., as is shown by the masons' inscription on its lower end. It stood on a pedestal of white marble, surrounded with a grating, and was surmounted by a statue of Antoninus, as is represented on coins issued after his death. Previous to the eighteenth century the base of the column was entirely buried, but the lower part of the shaft projected about 6 metres above the ground. In 1703 the base was excavated, but the shaft lay in the Piazza Colonna until 1764 when unsuccessful attempts were made to repair it. Some pieces were used to restore the obelisk of Augustus that is now in the Piazza di Monte Citorio, and the lower part was taken to the Vatican. Three of the sides of the pedestal, which is now in the Giardino della Pigna in the Vatican, are covered with reliefs. The principal one, representing the apotheosis of Antoninus and Faustina, was turned towards the Ustrinum. The opposite side bears the dedicatory inscription, and the reliefs on the other two represent scenes at the deification)