Talk:Trajan's Column
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I wasn't certain about the precise height. Indeed this source agrees with the 38-metre number: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=75072&tocid=0&query=trajan (I didn't have any authoritative sources to check with when I wrote that bit.) :-)
Btw, other results in a brief Google search seem to yield only approximate numbers in the order of 30 metres or 100 feet.
--abhi 10:20, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Edited for readability
I've moved the translation up a little, block-formatted the inscription text and added some whitespace. I don't know how much better it is now. Does it work? --abhi 13:44, 2005 Jan 19 (UTC)
It looks better if you take the image from the left but i have left it to the page creator to do. --Gabor 14:35, 2006 Apr 10 (GMT)
[edit] Possible links to further online images
I recently had an email exchange with someone who was looking for the best available photographic representation of the column (print or online). It looks like the most comprehensive online photos are at http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/Trajans_Column/home.html. Possibly should be added to the external links, although (as my correspondent wrote) the photos are a bit dark.
He also writes:
There is a book for sale by Radu Vulpe and a forthcoming CD both published by CIMEC, but when you go to their website there is no mention of the CD and the book doesn't seem to have sufficient photographic images to cover the entire column, even though he is credited as having taken a complete photographic record of the castings in one of the Romanian museums.
There is also a great site at http://www.stoa.org/trajan/, but with drawings rather than photos, which we should certainly link; I will do so. - Jmabel | Talk 18:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- Aha! These are already linked, this person was writing me about precisely what we already link to. - Jmabel | Talk 18:36, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] AD or BC?
You might want to clairfy if this Is B.C. or A.D. just listing the year doesn't help for the casual reader. - el question
- Clicking on the link directs to the AD year. If the year is not given, then it is assumed to be AD. I may clarify this, though. --Grimhelm 15:01, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
