Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

io6 Commemorative Columns

Marcus Aurelius1, of Theodosios2 and Arkadios3. Isolated zones

Fig. 68. Fig. 69.

Colonna Trajana Romae s. a. (1672), which are inexact but convenient. See also
W. Froehner La Colonne Trajan? Paris 1865 pp. 1—168 with map and figs., S. Reinach
La Colonne Trajane an musie de St. Germain Paris 1886, E. Petersen Trajans dakische
Kriege nach dem Sauhnrelief erzahlt i ii Leipzig 1899, J 903, Mrs A. Strong Roman
Sculpture from Augustus to Constanline London 1907 pp. 166—213 pis. 51—62. Further
bibliography in H. Kiepert et C. Huelsen Format urbis Romae antiquae3 Berolini 1912
p. 72.

Fig. 68 is from a specimen in the British Museum, on which Trajan is shown with a
sceptre (?) in his left hand, a thunderbolt (?) in his right, and a paludamentum covering
his back. Fig. 69 is from a specimen in my collection, which represents him with sceptre (?)
and thunderbolt (?), but without the paludamentum. Cp. Rasche Lex. Num. ii. 711 f.,
viii. 594 I., 1561 f., Suppl. i. 1880, Cohen Monn. emp. rom.1 ii. 55 f. no. 359 fig., nos. 360 f.,
id. il>.- ii. 75 f. nos. 555—564, Stevenson—Smith—Madden Diet. Rom. Coins]). 236 f. fig.

1 Corp. inscr. J.at. vi nos. 1585and 1585^ = Wilmanns Ex. inscr. Lat. no. 2840 -
Dessau Inscr. Lat. set. no. 5920, euriosum urbis regionum xiv and noiitia regionum
urbis xiv reg. 9 (H. Jordan Topographie derStadt Rom im Alterthum Berlin 187 1 ii- 556),
Aur. Vict, de Caes. 16. 13, epit. 16. 14, mirabilia Romae 16 (H. Jordan op. cit. ii. 620).
The chief modern work on the column of Marcus Aurelius is E. Petersen—A. von
Domaszewski—G. Calderini Die Marcus-Sduleauf Piazza Colonna in Rom Miinchen 1896
(text and two vols, of 128 pis. photographed from the original reliefs). Reinach Rep.
Reliefs i. 293—329 gives in reduced form the plates of P. S. Bartoli—G. P. Bellori
Columna Antoniniana Romae s. a. [c. 1675), which have the same merits and defects as
in the case of the Trajanic column. See further Mrs A. Strong Roman Sculpture from
Augustus to Constantine London 1907 pp. 270—291 pis. 82—89, H. Jordan—C. Huelsen
Topographie der Stadt Rom im Alterthum Berlin 1907 i. 3. 605—607. Bibliography in
II. Kiepert et C. Huelsen Formae urbis Romae antiquae'1 Berolini 1912 p. 71.

2 Konstantinos Rhodios 202—240 {Rev. Et. Gr. 1896 ix. 42 b), Anonymus descriptio
regionum urbis reg. 7 (in Hesycbios of Miletos ed. Orelli p. 316), Anonymos -warpta. p. r7
(in A. Banduri Lmperium Orientale sive Antiquitates Constantinopolitanai Parisiis 1711
Pars tertia, Lib. i—iii, p. 17), Kodinos de signis Constantinopolitanis 21 D, 24 K, 24 C
(pp. 38, 42, 43 Bekker), Marcellinus Comes chron. ann. Chr. 480 (li. 932 Migne),
Theophanes chronogr. ann. mund. 5878, 5970, 5998 (pp. no, 195, 229 Classen), Io. Malal.
chron. 16 p. 401 Dindorf, Leon Grammatikos chronogr. p. 118 Bekker, Kedren. hist,
comp. 3 23 B (i. 566 Bekker), Niketas Choniates de rebus post captain urban gestis p. 804 f.
Bekker, Georgios Akropolites annal. 5 p. n Bekker, and the poems in later Greek de
Syria expugnata 887 ft"., Constantinopolis expuguata 343 ft. (Recueil des historiens des
Croisades. Historiens grecs. Paris 1875 >■ 618 A—C, 661 c). See further F. W. Unger
Quellen der byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte Wien 1878 i. 168 ff. nos. 401—420. Modern
monographs are E. Miintz ' La colonne Theodosienne a Constantinople' in the Rev. Et. Gr.
1888 i. 318—325 and T. Reinach 'Colonne de Theodose' in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1896 ix.
74—78: cp. O. M. Ualton Byzantine Art and Archaeology Oxford 1911 pp. 123, 144.