MONUMENT

(Lat.) A memorial for perpetuating the of nn event; also a cenotaph in memory of the dead. The productions of architecture and sculpture intended to transmit to posterity the memory of individuals and events are most generally Called monuments. A those in honour of individuals are tombs and sepulchral edifices or columns. The most ancient are the obelisks and pyramids of Egypt; and perhaps contemporary with t: the tombs of the Persian kings, slill visible in tlie ruins of Perse polis. Greece abounded with monuments of this DO turc. Buildings in that country were Deques commemoration of distinguished |iersons or eve:.!s; and of this cla were the Chor.igic monuments, In hoi who had received the pii/.e as choragi in the Lb< musical games. < If MOSS the moat splendid is the climatic monument of I.ysicrates. vulgarly called the Lantern of lie mosthenes. Among (be monuments of this cla of the Romans,the triumphal aiiiics are in the first rank. Ti ei-i lumn railed the Monument of London, and the Dul monument, illustrate respectively the definition above given. [s. 787]