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Trajan's Column is a monument in Rome raised by Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Senate. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum. It was completed in 113, the spiral bas-relief commemorates Trajan's victory in his military campaigns to conquer Dacia. See Dacian Wars. The Taj Mahal, commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, as a mausoleum for his wife, Arjumand Banu Begum. ...
Nickname: The Eternal City Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 8th century BC Mayor Walter Veltroni Area - City 1,285 km² (496. ...
Apollodorus of Damascus, a famous Greek architect, engineer, designer and sculptor, flourished during the 2nd century AD. He was a favourite of Trajan, for whom he constructed Trajans Bridge over the Danube (104) for the campaign in Dacia. ...
The Roman Senate (Latin, Senatus) was the main governing council of both the Roman Republic, which started in 510 BC, and the Roman Empire, which ended in the 6th century AD. The word Senatus is derived from the Latin word senex, meaning old man or elder. ...
Trajans Forum Trajans Forum (Forum Traiani) is chronologically the last of the Imperial forums of Rome. ...
An etching of the Hill, crowned by the mass of the Palazzo del Quirinale, from a series I Sette Colli di Roma antica e moderna published in 1827 by Luigi Rossini (1790 - 1857): his view, from the roof of the palazzo near the Trevi Fountain that now houes the Accademia...
This page refers to the main forum in the centre of Rome. ...
Events Trajan starts an expedition against Armenia. ...
Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus (September 18, 53 – August 9, 117), Roman Emperor (98-117), commonly called Trajan, was the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire. ...
Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Southeastern Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now...
Combatants Dacians Roman Empire Commanders Decebal Trajan Strength around 100,000 (based on population estimate) 70,000-80,000 Casualties Unknown Unknown The Dacian Wars (101-102, 105-106) were two short wars between the Roman Empire and Dacia during Emperor Trajans rule. ...
The structure is about 30 meters (98 ft) in height, 38 including its large pedestal. The shaft is made from a series of 18 colossal Carrara marble drums, each weighing about 40 tons, with a diameter of about 4 meters (13 ft). The 200 meter (656 ft) frieze winds around the shaft 23 times. Inside the shaft, a spiral staircase of 185 stairs provides access to a viewing platform at the top. Carrara is a city in the Massa Carrara province of Tuscany, Italy, famous for the white or blue-gray marble quarried there. ...
According to coins depicting the column, it was originally topped with a statue of a bird, possibly an eagle,[1] and later by a statue of Trajan himself. In 1588, it was replaced by a statue of St. Peter (which still remains) by Pope Sixtus V. 1588 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ...
According to tradition, Peter was crucified upside-down, as shown in this painting by Caravaggio. ...
Sixtus V, born Felice Peretti (December 13, 1521 -– August 27, 1590) was pope from 1585 to 1590. ...
 Traces of colouring have been found in the crevices of the carving, from which has been deduced this coloured reconstruction (seen in displays at Lunt Fort, whose reconstructed fort is based on the column's reliefs). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (387x1574, 234 KB) Lunt Roman fort, Coloured reconstruction File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Trajans Column Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (387x1574, 234 KB) Lunt Roman fort, Coloured reconstruction File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Trajans Column Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the...
The main gate to the fort has been reconstructed The Lunt Fort is a reconstructed Roman fort. ...
The relief
 Trajan's Column -- detail. The relief portrays Trajan's two victorious military campaigns against the Dacians; the lower half illustrating the first (101-102), and the top half illustrating the second (105-106). Trajans Column -- detail Picture taken in Rome in May 2003. ...
Trajans Column -- detail Picture taken in Rome in May 2003. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (325x1000, 77 KB) Description: Rom, Trajans Column Beschreibung: Rom: Trajansäule Quelle: Eigenes Foto 9/2004 Fotograf oder Zeichner: Rolf Süßbrich Andere Versionen: Licence: File links The following pages link to this file: Trajans Column ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (325x1000, 77 KB) Description: Rom, Trajans Column Beschreibung: Rom: Trajansäule Quelle: Eigenes Foto 9/2004 Fotograf oder Zeichner: Rolf Süßbrich Andere Versionen: Licence: File links The following pages link to this file: Trajans Column ...
Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Southeastern Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now...
boobs Births Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician Ptolemy, Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer. ...
For other uses, see number 102. ...
Events Roman Empire Trajan starts the second expedition against Dacia. ...
For other uses, see number 106. ...
The two sections are separated by a personification of Victory writing on a shield flanked on either side by Trophies. Otherwise, the scenes on the frieze unfold continuously and in tipped-up perspective. The imagery is not realistic as the sculptor pays little attention to perspective. Often a variety of different perspectives are used in the same scene, so that more can be revealed (e.g. a different angle is used to show men working behind a wall). This article discusses the Greek Goddess. ...
A square in two-point perspective. ...
The scenes depict mostly the Roman army in military activities such as setting out to battle and engaging the Dacians, as well as constructing fortifications and listening to the emperor's address. The carvings are crowded with sailors, soldiers, statesmen and priests, showing about 2,500 figures in all and providing a valuable source of information for modern historians on Roman and barbaric arms and methods of warfare (such as forts, ships, weapons etc.). The emperor Trajan, depicted realistically (not superhuman), makes 59 appearances among his troops. A large figure of a river god is also visible.
The base is covered with reliefs of trophies of Dacian weapons. Such imagery had the connotation of a surrender, as in Ancient times the defeated soldiers would dump their weapons in a pile as a term of surrender.
The inscription The inscription at the base of the column in finest lettering reads: SENATVS·POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS
IMP·CAESARI·DIVI·NERVAE·F·NERVAE
TRAIANO·AVG·GERM·DACICO·PONTIF
MAXIMO·TRIB·POT·XVII·IMP·VI·COS·VI·P·P
AD·DECLARANDVM·QVANTAE·ALTITVDINIS
MONS·ET·LOCVS·TANT<IBUS·OPER>IBVS·SIT·EGESTVS Translated, the inscription reads: The Senate and people of Rome [give or dedicate this] to the emperor Caesar, son of the divine Nerva, Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, pontifex maximus, in his 17th year in the office of tribune, having been acclaimed 6 times as imperator, 6 times consul, pater patriae, to demonstrate of what great height the hill [was] and place [that] was removed for such great works. See also the SPQR series of murder mystery novels and the SPQR board game. ...
For other uses, see Nerva (disambiguation). ...
Alternate meanings: see Pontifex (disambiguation) In Ancient Rome, the Pontifex Maximus was the high priest of the collegium of the Pontifices, the most august position in Roman religion, open only to a patrician, until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post. ...
Tribune (from the Latin: tribunus; Greek form tribounos) was a title shared by several elected magistracies and other governmental and/or (para)military offices of the Roman Republic and Empire. ...
Imperium can, in a broad sense, be translated as power. ...
Consul (abbrev. ...
Pater Patriae (plural Patres Patriae), also seen as Parens Patriae, is a Latin honorific title meaning Father of the Fatherland. ...
It was believed that the column was supposed to stand where the saddle between the Capitoline and Quirinal Hills used to be, having been excavated by Trajan, but excavation has revealed that this is not the case. The saddle was where Trajan's Forum and Trajan's Market stood. Hence, the inscription refers to the Trajan's entire building project in the area of the Imperial fora. The Capitoline Hill (Capitolinus Mons), between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the famous seven hills of Rome, the site of a temple for the Capitoline Triad: the gods Jupiter, his wife Juno and their daughter Minerva. ...
An etching of the Hill, crowned by the mass of the Palazzo del Quirinale, from a series I Sette Colli di Roma antica e moderna published in 1827 by Luigi Rossini (1790 - 1857): his view, from the roof of the palazzo near the Trevi Fountain that now houes the Accademia...
Trajans Forum Trajans Forum (Forum Traiani) is chronologically the last of the Imperial forums of Rome. ...
Trajans Market, 2000. ...
Map of the forums The Imperial Forums consist of a series of monumental fora (public squares), constructed in Rome over a period of one and half centuries, between 46 BC and 113 AD. The forums were the heart of the late Roman Republic and of the Roman Empire. ...
 Base of Trajan's Column around 1860 This is perhaps the most famous example of Roman square capitals, a script often used for stone monuments, and less often for manuscript writing. As it was meant to be read from below, the bottom letters are slightly smaller than the top letters, to give proper perspective. Some, but not all, word divisions are marked with a dot, and many of the words, especially the titles, are abbreviated. In the inscription, numerals are marked with a titulus, a bar across the top of the letters. A small piece at the bottom of the inscription has been lost. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (640x830, 143 KB) en:: Description: Rome, Base of Trajans Column around 1860. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (640x830, 143 KB) en:: Description: Rome, Base of Trajans Column around 1860. ...
The Arch of Titus, with an inscription in Roman square capitals Roman square capitals, also called elegant capitals and quadrata, are an ancient Roman form of writing, and the basis for modern capital letters. ...
The modern computer typeface "Trajan," designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly (who worked for Adobe Systems and for Bigelow & Holmes), uses letterforms based on this inscription.
Purpose It was traditionally thought that the Column was a propagandistic monument, glorifying the emperor's military exploits. However, the structure would have been generally invisible and surrounded by other buildings in Trajan's Forum, and because of the difficulty involved in following the frieze from end to end, it is now considered to have had much less propaganda value. Based on the inscription, the column may have been a measuring guide for the construction of the forum. Trajans Forum Trajans Forum (Forum Traiani) is chronologically the last of the Imperial forums of Rome. ...
After Trajan's death in 117, the Roman Senate voted to have Trajan's ashes buried in the Column's base in a golden urn. (The ashes no longer lie there.) // Events Trajan subdued a Judean revolt, then fell seriously ill, leaving Hadrian in command of the east. ...
The Roman Senate (Latin, Senatus) was the main governing council of both the Roman Republic, which started in 510 BC, and the Roman Empire, which ended in the 6th century AD. The word Senatus is derived from the Latin word senex, meaning old man or elder. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ...
Casts - See also: Cast Courts (Victoria and Albert Museum)#Trajan's Column
Plaster casts of Trajan's Column displayed at National Museum of Romanian History The Cast Courts of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, comprise two large halls. ...
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The Museum of Romanian History is a museum in Bucharest, Romania, which contains Romanian historical artifacts from prehistoric times up to modern times. ...
| V&A cast court Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 1848 KB) V&A Trajans column casts I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
| Cast court from upper gallery Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1704x2272, 874 KB) Summary Cast court at the Victoria and Albert museum, London. ...
| Inside the cast at the V&A Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 830 KB) Inside the cast of Trajans column at the Victoria and Albert museum, London. ...
| Plaster casts of the relief were taken in the 19th and 20th centuries. Ironically, after a century of acid pollution, they are now more legible in some details than the original and , even when not, offer students a closer look at the reliefs because of the way they are displayed. Examples can be seen at: Museum of Roman Civilization Italo Gismondis model The Museum of the Roman Civilization (Italian Museo della Civiltà Romana) is a museum in Rome (Esposizione_Universale_Roma district), devoted to the aspects of the Ancient Roman civilization. ...
The Museum of Romanian History is a museum in Bucharest, Romania, which contains Romanian historical artifacts from prehistoric times up to modern times. ...
The Cast Courts of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, comprise two large halls. ...
The Cromwell Road entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum viewed from Thurloe Square The main interior courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2004. ...
Trajans Column Picture taken in May 2003 in Rome. ...
Trajans Column Picture taken in May 2003 in Rome. ...
Inspired
Rome Modelled on Trajans Column, a monumental column in Rome commemorating the emperor Marcus Aurelius. ...
Coin showing the column with surmounting statue of Antoninus. ...
Byzantium - Column of Theodosius - fr:colonne de Théodose
- Column of Arcadius - fr:colonne d'Arcadius
Modern Communards pose with the statue from the toppled Vendôme column, 1871 Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine. ...
Carlo Borromeo (October 2, 1538 - November 4, 1584), saint and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, son of Ghiberto Borromeo, count of Arona, and Margarita de Medici, was born at the castle of Arona on Lago Maggiore. ...
Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 UN complex in Vienna, with the non-affiliated Austria Center Vienna in front - picture taken from Danube Tower in nearby Danube Park. ...
References - ^ Samuel Ball Platner (1929). A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. LacusCurtius.
External links - Extensive database of images and explanations
- Photographs of the reliefs
- A description of the column.
- Trajan Font (TTF file)
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