Column, Triumphal

A column erected among the ancients in honor of a hero, and decorated with various kinds of crowns, corresponding to the number of his achievements in battle. Each crown had its particular name, as vallar is , which was filled with spikes, in memory of his having faced a palisade; mural is , adorned with little turrets or battlements, for having mounted an a ault; naval is , of prows and beaks of ve els, for having vanquished at sea; obsidional is , or gram in a lis , of gra , for having raised a siege; ovans , of myrtle, which expre ed an ovation, or minor triumph; and triumphal is , of laurel, for a grand triumph.