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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