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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2973213, member: 84744&quot;]Trier blew me away when I visited a few years ago, especially the museum (that hoard!) and Constantine&#039;s basilica.&nbsp; You&#039;ll definitely need to go inside... you can really imagine Constantine sitting on a throne and hearing petitions.&nbsp; Most of the structure is original, amazingly enough, and all the later additions have been stripped off.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a panorama I shot from inside:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]729816[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I too was hustled out of the museum at closing time, although that was after many hours! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Some of my favourite items included this solid gold fibula, a presentation piece, with votive inscriptions (VOT X) to Constantine and Licinius.&nbsp; It surely must have been worn by a major figure in the Empire at the time.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]729818[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also liked the hall of funerary monuments.&nbsp; In your photo, you can just see the front of this one, which apparently symbolizes life and death (c. 200 CE).&nbsp; Not your typical Roman sculpture!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]729819[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Another monument that struck my fancy:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]729821[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there&#039;s this rather impressive wind chime, c. 1st century.&nbsp; A winged phallus with a phallus and a tail that is a phallus.&nbsp; For &quot;good luck.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I decided not to get one for my front door.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]729823[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also liked this little dude wearing traditional Trier costume, made in the 3rd century:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]729824[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A truly incredible museum, worth a whole day, for sure!&nbsp; And then if you want some of your own museum pieces, you can cross the (original!) Roman bridge and go to this Antique shop, which was chockablock with cool stuff:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]729826[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]729859[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m so envious you can just pop over there on the train... have an awesome time!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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