Editing Trajan's Column (section)

== Reproduction ==
[[File:TrajanscolumbMdCR.jpg|thumb|The plaster casts laid out at eye level in the [[Museum of Roman Civilization]] in Rome]]

Plaster casts of the relief were taken in the 19th and 20th centuries. After a century of [[acid rain|acid pollution]], they are now more legible in some details than the original, and the way they are displayed offers students a closer look at the reliefs than at the original site. Examples can be studied at:

* [[Museum of Roman Civilization]] in Rome, where each "frame" of the narrative has been cut into a separate section and the sections are then displayed horizontally in order
* [[National Museum of Romanian History]], Bucharest, Romania, which displays the frieze horizontally in segments
* [[Cast Courts (Victoria and Albert Museum)#Trajan's Column|Cast Courts]] at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], London. Displayed in column form and, including the base, the column is chopped into two halves.
* {{ill|Archaeological Collection of the University of Zürich|de|Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Zürich}}, [[University of Zürich]]

Additionally, individual casts of the frieze are on display in various museums, for example, in the [[:de:Museum für Antike Schiffahrt|Museum for Ancient Navigation]] in [[Mainz]]. A complete survey in [[monochrome]] was published by the German archaeologist [[Conrad Cichorius]] between 1896 and 1900 (see [[commons:Category:Trajan's Column - Cichorius Plates|Commons]]),<ref>{{harvnb|Cichorius|1896|}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Cichorius|1900|}}</ref> still forming the base of modern scholarship.<ref>{{harvnb|Lepper|Frere|1988|}}</ref> Based on Cichorius's work, and on the photographic archive of the [[German Archaeological Institute]], a research-oriented Web-based viewer for Trajan's Column was created at the German-language image database.<ref>{{harvnb|Förtsch|2007|}}</ref>