Collective wisdom – particularly classicists!
One of my curators came at me with this question; see below –
obviously out of my specialty arena!
From what I have been able to uncover, I believe that the
answer is the Aurelius column – can anyone out there confirm?
Much appreciated!
Barbara
“I have a research question—I have a photograph
of a column in Rome—it
is either the column of Marcus Aurelius or the Column of Trajan. I want to know
which one of them has the relief of the River God down at the bottom of the
column, so big that he looms out over the long strip of reliefs which wrap
itself around both columns—this is the essential difference that you can
see, but I don’t know for which one.”
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Barbara Rominski
Head, Research Library and Archives
SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San
Francisco, CA
94103
415 357 4121
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