The column masts of the most famous monuments in Alexandria. Built on a hill between the door of Sidra area and the current Muslim cemetery known as Cemetery Hill between the column and the archaeological com Alhqavp. And a length of about 27 meters and made of red granite. Was held in honor of Emperor Diocletian in the third century AD. Which is the last remaining relic of the Serapeum Temple established by Bustumus? And is the highest monument in the world. Did not specify the date of establishment of this column exactly, but back to the Roman era, and was said to dedicate this column after the victory of Christianity in Alexandria.
The name and column name of a column to the masts Arab age where it is believed that it was the result of the height of the towering column between 400 and another column which looks like masts of ships and so-called Arabs column masts and later misrepresented to the masts. The custom column masts error since the Crusades as a column of Pompeii because this error is that the Europeans thought that the head of the Roman general Pompey, who fled to Egypt to escape from Julius Caesar and killed the Egyptians thought that his head had been placed in a jar funerary valuables and placed above the crown of the column.
The body of the column is a one-piece diameter at the base 2.70 m, 2.30 m at the crown. The overall height of the column including the base of about 26.85 meters. On the west side of the column bases can access them peace under the ground and there are two statues are similar to that of the Sphinx are made of granite pink dating back to the era of Ptolemy VI. On one inscription of King Horemheb of the family the eighteenth.