08-27-2007, 04:11 PM
A week or two ago I was at the Cluny Museum of the Middle Ages in
Paris. Among their collections, they have four blocks from a Roman
monument dating to the reign of Tiberius. It's referred to as the
"Pilier des Nautes," that is, Pillar of the Nautes. Two of the
faces depict armed men, probably on board rivercraft, and I thought
there might be some interest here in seeing them.
You can see a nice interactive reconstruction here:
http://www.paris.culture.fr/fr/ow_pilier.htm (the text is in French,
but the pictures are also in English... :wink: ) If you click on any
of the faces, it will show an enlargement; roll over the enlargement
with your mouse to see the details outlined in black.
The third picture is Pollux of Castor and Pollux fame; I also have a picture of his brother, along with all of the other faces and the inscription, if there's interest, but they don't show armed men.
Paris. Among their collections, they have four blocks from a Roman
monument dating to the reign of Tiberius. It's referred to as the
"Pilier des Nautes," that is, Pillar of the Nautes. Two of the
faces depict armed men, probably on board rivercraft, and I thought
there might be some interest here in seeing them.
You can see a nice interactive reconstruction here:
http://www.paris.culture.fr/fr/ow_pilier.htm (the text is in French,
but the pictures are also in English... :wink: ) If you click on any
of the faces, it will show an enlargement; roll over the enlargement
with your mouse to see the details outlined in black.
The third picture is Pollux of Castor and Pollux fame; I also have a picture of his brother, along with all of the other faces and the inscription, if there's interest, but they don't show armed men.
Dan Diffendale
Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan
Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan
