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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: Roman soldiers load barrels on to river-craft. A signal tower is visible to the left. The omen of Scene 9 is partially visible above.From the Column in situ. Compare Cichorius Pl.V. RBU2013.20150. Scene 25/XXV (detail): Trajan inspecting the enemies fortifications. On left: actual relief in situ. On right: Detail of cast no. 67 now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana.The degree of weathering over the last 150 years appears negligible, with the possible exception of the face of the officer standing behind Trajan. Ref Left: RBU2013.2061; Right: RBU2011.6992. Scenes 62/LXII and 63/LXIII. Draft animals (oxen and mules) appear on the left (cast 149) towards a fortification that protects a large tent - headquarters? (casts 150-151). Legionaries are stationed outside of the fortress walls. More legionaries and auxiliaries head into mountainous terrain (casts 152-154). Windowless cylindrical buildings with conical roofs and perhaps skylights create the background: Dacian tombs? Temples? cf. Lepper/Frere 1988: 104. Within this mountain setting the emperor Trajan consults his officers (cast 155). From casts 149-156, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pls. XLIII-XLIV, scenes 62-63 and Coarelli Pls. 64-66. RBU2011.7138-43-composite Scene 86/LXXXVI (detail): Trajan makes sacrifice at an altar upon arrival. He holds a patera and pours a libation upon the flame. From cast 226, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pl. LXIII scene 86 and Coarelli Pl. 100. RBU2011.8100. Scene 134/CXXXIV (detail): Close view of Roman defenders within the walls of their fort fending off a Dacian attack. The Romans' weapons include blocks of stone readied to be thrown upon the Dacian shields. Timbered watchtowers are visible above the walls of the fort. From casts 358-359, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pl. XCIX, scene 134 and Coarelli Pls. 160-161. Ref: RBU2011.8268-134 Parallel Stereograph of Scene 16/XVI: soldiers drag a log from a forest. RBU2012.1000105-p View of the Column of Trajan from the south, in the vicinity of the Forum of Julius Caesar. RBU2016.6468 On the Column of Trajan, from left to right (profile top and side/three-quarter view bottom). 1. (Left, top and bottom): Trajan's first sacrifice in front of a Roman camp (Scene 8). Compare Cichorius Pl. X and Coarelli Pl. 8. 2. (Middle, top and bottom): Trajan sacrifices before a group of Romans and Dacians (Scene 91). Compare Cichorius Pl. LXVI and Coarelli Pl. 106. 3. (Right, top and bottom): Trajan makes an inaugural sacrifice in front of the bridge built over the Danube (Scene 99). Compare Cichorius Pl. LXXII and Coarelli Pl. 118. Images from casts in the Museo della Civiltà Romana. (Photos by Ulrich; Image Grid by Z. Mei). Latin inscription on the southeast side of the pedestal of the Column of Trajan, as reproduced in 1752 by Morelli. Morelli 1752 Scene 60 (left): Construction of a fort; Scene 61 (middle): Trajan receives Dacian emissaries; Scene 62 (right): moving carts into mountainous terrain (warfare scene continues to right). Compare Cichorius Plates XLII-XLIII. From the original publication of 1865; Ref: F-D-60-61.

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