Duderstadt Gallery: Section 3 - Triumphal Arch

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RECONSTRUCTING THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH
By the time the University of Michigan team excavated the remains of the triumphal arch in 1924, stone robbers had already carried away many of the arch’s original blocks. Enough of the monument survived, however, to enable the expedition’s architect, Frederick J. Woodbridge, to prepare a conjectural reconstruction of it. Based on his initial observations, Woodbridge produced a preliminary sketch of the arch. Since it was published in 1926, this sketch has served as the definitive reconstruction. Forty-seven years later, in 1971, Woodbridge completed a more detailed set of drawings, which have not been published. The digital facsimiles of Woodbridge’s revised drawings, exhibited here for the first time, represent the most accurate reconstruction of this triple-arched monument to date.

February 18, 2006
Digital Image
Courtesy of J. Matthew Harrington