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Adamclisi – Talking History
The Monument
In its original form the monument would have been composed of a huge cylindrical structure, superposed by a coned roof made of stone slates laid like scales and on the roof there were two hexagonal bases having decreasing size: they served as a socle for a large statue – the well -known Tropaeum – the symbol of the Roman victories won at the borders of the empire.
The stairway
At the basement, all around, there are nine rows of stairs-seven on the surface and two buried because of the monument settling during the centuries-carved in huge stone blocks. There is a promenade place of about two metres width upon the superior step.
The wall facing
Seeing from above, from the promenade level, there is a massive cylinder – the stereobat – first with six rows of polished stone coated slabs making the so-called paramentum – completely undecorated. According to recent calculations, the paramentum, in its whole was made of 510 blocks of stone, all equal in size, being 1.14 m long, 0.56 m wide and 0.70 thick.
The precise drafting along the edges of each block, the grooves and fact that some pieces from the paramentum have been found in situ and they are similar as material and shape with those found far away have led us the idea of oneness of the material and the construction of this part of the monument in a single stage. Finally all the pieces that compose the paramentum are secured horizontally by metal clamps.
The lower frieze
Above the first three rows of blocks at the lower part of the parament unfurled circular a sculptural complex made of three rows of superposed ornamental elements: the lower frieze, a succession of metopes framed by pilasters and the upper frieze. The both friezes have been initially made of 26 pieces, each 1.17m long. The lower frieze is decorated with acanthus leaves in volutes closing in the middle an wolf's head.
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