Majeed nizami column of trajan

For the sake of convenience, simplicity, and convention the individual scenes and the clustering of scenes into separate events of the Dacian campaigns follow the divisions originally created by Conrad Cichorius (1896-1900; see bibliography or the original plates). The “clusters” below mirror those used in the commentary published by Lepper and Frere (1988).

As this site grows I hope to include  summaries of some of the modern controversies surrounding the identification of scene, events, and topography.

Trajan's Column - V&A

A good place to review scholarship before the mid 1980s on this topic can be found in Lepper and Frere (1988, with commentary) and Koeppel (1982 – sources only). I have included some introductory comments on the composition and precedents for the reliefs on the Column on a separate page.

The titles used for each photo in the galleries below contain two sets of Roman numerals.

The first refers to the corresponding Plate (or Plates) in the original publicatio