Trajan\'s Column V Adamklissi

[tlclark]

Ok, I've taken a long hard good look at the Adamklissi monuments and I have come to the determination that I need much better images than I have.

In specific, the rendition of the faces and the drapery is well outside any Roman tradition, genre or otherwise.

BUT... and here's the big but, I am surprised by some details.

Specifically the chain on one. Not certain here, but the links appear to be figure eight shaped. That's a unique feature of Roman chains we see in archaeological evidence and in the art, and its counter-intuitive to the way most chains are made or represented and argues that we may have an artist looking at actual Roman chains.

However, so many other details are just so off - imho.

So, a crack has been opened.

So...convince me.

Travis