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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: Trajan inspects the occupation of a Dacian fort, while Dacians flee towards the right. In the foreground, Roman soldiers set fire to wooden buildings built upon vertical piles. The walls of the fort are protected by pits filled with sharpened spikes (lilia). Along the fortification walls skulls have been placed on poles, perhaps the remains of Roman soldiers from earlier campaigns - the unsuccessful forays by Domitian? (Coarelli 2000: 69). From a cast now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pl. XX (Scene 25) and Coarelli Pl. 25. Ref: RBU 2011.6993. Scenes 49/XLIX-51/LI: Scene 49: Three rows of soldiers advance. Foreground: cavalry with their horses. Middle: the infantry. Top: mules and oxen haul baggage. A circular structure (tower?) borders the scene on the right (cast 125). Scene 50: On hilly terrain Trajan receives a group of legionaries who ascend a wooden walkway (cast 126). In the background a hill fort is represented. A twisting mountain path also serves as the right border to this scene. Scene 51: Trajan, with his retinue of reinforcement troops, meets another group of auxiliaries and legionaries. A fortified camp fills the background. From casts 123-129, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pls. XXXVI-VII, scenes 49-51 and Coarelli Pls. 51-53. RBU2011.7102-7-composite Scene 84/LXXXIV: Detail of children who accompany Trajan when he has just left the harbor town (presumably his formal public departure, or "profectio"). From cast 219, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pl. LXI (Scene 84) and Coarelli Pl. 98. RBU2011.8090 Scenes 138-139/CXXXVIII-CXXXIX: Legionaries gather loot, probably meant to represent the treasure hidden by Decebalus, and load baskets of it onto a mule. To the right, a Dacian leader, certainly Decebalus himself (the face is worn and in poor condition) takes council with his followers (one of <a href="http://www.trajans-column.org/?page_id=866">six scenes</a> that are thought to represent the Dacian king.). All appears to be lost; the riderless horse on cast 368 seems ready to evacuate the Dacian leader. From casts 366-369, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pls. CI-CII, scenes 138-139 and Coarelli Pls. 164-165. Ref: RBU2011.8277-composite. Anaglyph of Scene 121/CXXI RBU2012.1000123-a A new model in the Museo della Civiltà Romana restores Trajan's forum based on the most recent excavations in central Rome that have taken place since the year 2000. In the foreground, the open plaza of the forum dominates this view. The Basilica Ulpia, with its two exedrae, closes off the northwest side of the forum complex. Behind the Basilica the top of the Column of Trajan is visible. Ref: RBU2012.0142 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). View of the pedestal and base of the Column of Trajan, northeast side. RBU2011.00862 Scene 40: A battle rages against the Dacians.Scene 41 (after the tree divider): the Dacians are routed. Compare Cichorius Plate XXXII. From the original publication of 1865; Ref: F-D-40-41.

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