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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 668 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPINA (See also:Lat. for a See also:thorn, or prickle, also backbone, whence spine)  , in See also:architecture, the See also:term given to the See also:low See also:podium See also:wall which divided the See also:circus of the See also:Romans and See also:round which the chariots ran; at each end of it was the See also:meta or See also:goal . On coins, gems and bas-reliefs it is shown with numerous other features on it, such as obelisks (of which those from the See also:spina of the Circus See also:Maximus are now in the piazzas of the Lateran and del Popolo), small See also:aedicula or pairs of columns carrying an See also:entablature, altars, statues, trophies, &c .

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