Pompey's Pillar

Pompey's Pillar may refer to:

  • Pompey's Pillar (column), an ancient column in Alexandria, Egypt
  • Pompeys Pillar National Monument, a large rock formation in Montana, USA, named after the column
  • Pompey's Pillar, Montana, an unincorporated community in Montana, named after the rock formation
  • Pompeys Pillar (South Australia), a mountain in Wilpena Pound
  • The Pillar of Pompey, an ancient altar on the European of the Symplegades

Famous quotes containing the word pillar:

    “Nights, I squat in the cornucopia
    Of your left ear, out of the wind,

    Counting the red stars and those of plum-color.
    The sun rises under the pillar of your tongue.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)