Pompey’s Pillar

in Alexandria. A pillar erected by Publius, Prefect of Egypt, in honour of the Emperor Diocletian, to record the conquest of Alexandria in 296. It has about as much right to be called Pompey’s pillar as the obelisk of Heliopʹolis, re-erected by Ramʹeses II. at Alexandria, has to be called Cleopatra’s Necdle, or Gibraltar Rock to be called a Pillar of Herʹculēs.