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Images of Trajan in Situ (SE)

Representations of Trajan on the southeast side of Trajan’s Column in Rome.

 

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Scene 2/II: On the banks of the Danube, outside a fortified village, Roman soldiers load supplies. Barrels are loaded on the left; baled dry goods on the right. The buildings in the background may be storehouses (horrea; Lepper and Frere (1988: 49). Cast from the Museo della Civilta' Romana, Rome. Compare: Cichorius Pl. V, scene 2; Coarelli (2000) Plate 3, pg. 47. Ref: RBU2011.6911 Scene 24/XXIV: The first great battle scene, right side, in situ. Jupiter joins the Roman side. His raised right arm is poised to throw a (missing) thunderbolt. RBU2015.5463 The testudo formation of Scene 71/LXXI as it appeared on the Column in late 2013.RBU2013.3793 Scene 91/XCI (detail): Trajan conducts a sacrifice with attendants. From cast 237, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pl. LXVI scene 91 and Coarelli Pl. 106. RBU2011.8115 Scene 128/CXXVIII (detail): Close view of a defensive gateway known as a clavicle or <i>clavicula</i>. An enemy attacker carrying a shield on his left arm would be exposed on the right side as he attempted to break into the walls of the fort. In the foreground: a sentry stands guard. From cast 346, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pl. XCVI, scene 128, and Coarelli Pl. 156. Ref: RBU2011.8252. Anaglyph of Scene CXLV: The suicide of Decebalus. RBU2012.1000125-a View from the southeast. Ref: RBU1974.238 On the Column of Trajan, from left to right (profile top and side/three-quarter view bottom). 1. (Left, top and bottom): A lustration scene (part of a suovetaurilia) in a Roman camp, with Trajan as chief priest (Scene 103). Compare Cichorius Pl. LXXVI and Coarelli Pl. 124. 2. (Middle, top and bottom): Trajan presides over a sacrifice in a camp; part of a suovetaurilia scene (Scene 53). Compare Cichorius Pl. XXXVIII and Coarelli Pl. 54. 3. (Right, top and bottom): Trajan making a sacrifice in a harbor town (Scene 86). Compare Cichorius Pl. LXIII and Coarelli Pl. 101. Images from casts in the Museo della Civiltà Romana. (Photos by Ulrich; Image Grid by Z. Mei). Boni postulated that the cremated remains of both Trajan and his wife Plotina were kept in urns in the base of the Column of Trajan (in the chamber to the left of the door granting access to the pedestal of the Column. RBU2013.3705 From Boni (1907a) Trajan's Column Scenes 18-20. Compare Cichorius Plate XIV-XV. From the original 1865 publication; Ref: F-D-18-20.

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