List of ancient Greek and Roman monoliths

This is a list of ancient monoliths found in all types of Greek and Roman buildings.

It contains monoliths Transporting was done by land or water (or a combination of both), in the later case often by special-built ships such as obelisk carriers.

[1] For lifting operations, ancient cranes were employed since ca.

[3] It should be stressed that all numbers are estimations since only in the rarest cases have monoliths been actually weighed.

[4] For an explanation of the large margin of error, which often leads to widely differing numbers, see these introductory remarks.