Trajan’s Column

CONTENTS:

• Overview: an introduction to the Column of Trajan.
• Basic Statistics: Some fundamental figures and facts about the Column.
• Topography and Setting: Images and discussion of the Column in its context within the Forum of Trajan.
• Early Documentation: Reproductions, Drawings and early photographs (including a full set of the Cichorius Plates) of the Column.
• The Column in Situ: Views and commentary of the Column and its constituent parts (e.g., its pedestal, dedicatory inscription, interior staircase, base and capital) in situ.
• The First Dacian War Scene-by-Scene: Complete photographic documentation with commentary of the scenes from the lower half of the Column, including an introduction to the spiral reliefs and their precedents.
• The Second Dacian War Scene-by-Scene: Complete photographic documentation with commentary of the scenes from the upper half of the Column.
• Portraits of Trajan include images of Trajan on the Column as well as selected busts and free-standing images of Trajan and the imperial family.
• Numismatics: Coin issues that depict the Column of Trajan.
• Sources for the Column include Primary Texts in translation and Modern Scholarship.
• A Glossary of Terms and Index used in the website to describe the architecture, decoration, specialized terminology, and scenes of the Column.