Greetings all,
Today
we commemorate the official opening of Constantine's Bridge across the
Danube, which was ceremonially done in the presence of Emperor
Constantine himself on July 5th in
328 AD:
Interestingly, coins minted by
Constantine with a bridge on the
reverse were long thought to represent the Milvian Bridge. However the
Milvian Bridge is still standing and the bridge on the coins looks
nothing like it, so they probably represent Constantine's Bridge which
was built on pontoons instead of being an arched bridge. Truly this was a
marvel; it was the longest river bridge in all of antiquity being 2,434 meters in length!
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
www.byzantiumnovum.org
No comments:
Post a Comment