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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 3/III: In the center, Danuvius, the personification of the River Danube, rises from the riverbed and sees a group of Roman soldiers moving through a gateway. Cast in the Museo della Civilta' Romana, Rome. Compare: Cichorius Plate VI, scene 3; Coarelli (2000) Pl. 4. Ref: RBU2011.6913 Scene 22/XXII (Spiral 3): Assembly of soldiers in anticipation of battle, including standard-bearers on the far right. The setting is in a forest, as indicated by the line of trees at the top of the relief. Compare Cichorius Plate XVII (Scene 22); Casts nos. 51-52 in the Museo della Civiltà Romana. Ref: RBU2011.6975composite Scene 66/LXVI: Dacians with a draco standard and a vexillum (captured from the Romans?) watch their comrades fall in this epic battle scene. From cast #170, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pl. XLVIII scene 66 and Coarelli Pl. 74. Ref: RBU2011.7165. Composite image of Scenes 87/LXXXVII-89/LXXXIX: Soldiers, led by Trajan who is framed by standards (Cast 230), all wearing traveling clothes, depart from the coast (note the ship in the background of cast 229). The rocky outcrop on the left (229) may indicate the shore of Dalmatia (Coarelli 2000: 46). The entourage passes by a walled city (background, casts 232-233). A second procession appears to start at the right side of the walled city (Cichorius Scene 89). At the head of a group of horsemen a mounted Trajan moves swiftly to the right. From casts 229 - 235, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pls. LXIV-LXV scenes 87-89 and Coarelli Pls. 102-104. RBU2011.8104-composite. Scenes 134-135/CXXXIV-CXXXV: Dacians assault a Roman camp and are beaten back with great losses as the Roman defenders hurl stones down upon them from atop their walls. The Dacian attackers raise their shields above their heads to protect themselves. To the right, a worried pileate Dacian, probably Decebalus, looks on from a rocky outcrop in a forest. It has been suggested that the clean-shaven figure to the right of Decebalus is a Roman deserter (Coarelli 2000: 205). From casts 357-361, now in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. Compare Cichorius Pl. XCIX, scenes 134-135 and Coarelli Pls. 160-161. Ref: RBU2011.8267-composite. Parallel stereograph of Scene 121/CXXI. RBU2012.1000123-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): 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). Detail of captured armor represented in relief sculpture from the pedestal of the Column of Trajan. The draco standard is most prominent, against a background of oval shields, battle axes, and a shirt of chain mail. RBU2013.2082 = Cichorius Scene 9: the omen(?) of the man falling off the horse in the presence of Trajan. Compare Cichorius Pl. X. From the original publication of 1865; Ref: F-D-9.

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