Knotted column
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Knotted column (also serpent column) is an architectural element, consisting of a pair of columns joined together by a "flat knot".[1][2] The column was particularly used during the Romanesque period when it spread in a wide geographical area between Northern Italy, Bavaria, and Burgundy, and was particularly associated with the work of the Comacine masters and the Cistercian order.