Trajan\'s Column V Adamklissi

[Tarbicus]

We would be very much at a loss without the wonderful genre scenes of bakers, knife sellers and other trades. That's one of the great values of Roman art, it isn't all just Emperors and generals and we get a look at a broad spectrum of Roman society.

Couldn't agree more.

I will have to take a closer look at the Adamklissi material, but it still seems a world away, from even the genre style.

Think of the reliefs in context of only literal iconography with the genre being obvious, at least that's what I do. The effect I feel is from the initial approach to the monument itself, but I've never been there and am only going by the impression I get from photographs. That said, I've never stood at the base of Trajan's Column, but I have stood at the base of similar works of both type, and the feel I get from them are different, which would make sense in a way.