Characterized by their corkscrew(らせん状の)-like shaft(柱身), Solomonic columns draw their name from the Biblical description of the two columns that famously flanked(の側面に位置する)the entrance to the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, built in the 10th c BCE. According to tradition, that temple was the source of a set of columns brought to Rome by Constantine the Great in the 4th c CE for the original St. Peter's Basilica, where several of the pillars still remain.