Unlike the columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius, the column to Antoninus was not covered in reliefs, nor was it as tall. The almost two-metre-in-diameter red granite - sourced from Aswan in Egypt - column was undecorated and topped by a statue of Antoninus; the column can be seen on several coins minted to commemorate it and the deified father of the brother-emperors.
It has often been asked by the column of Antoninus differs so markedly from its
