Trajans Column Rome Italy
by Joan Carroll
Title
Trajans Column Rome Italy
Artist
Joan Carroll
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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
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Trajan's column on the left sits close to the 18th-century church Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano (on the right) in Rome Italy. But Trajan's Column undoubtedly has the more interesting history! In two wars fought between 101 and 106 CE, the emperor Trajan mustered tens of thousands of Roman troops, crossed the Danube River on two of the longest bridges the ancient world had ever seen and defeated a mighty Dacian empire (in what is now Romania). This was the defining event of Trajan's 19-year rule. The loot he brought back was staggering, said to be a half million pounds of gold and a million pounds of silver. To commemorate the victory, Trajan commissioned a forum that included a spacious plaza surrounded by colonnades, two libraries, a grand civic space known as the Basilica Ulpia, and possibly even a temple. Towering over it was a stone column 126 feet high, crowned with a bronze statue of the conqueror. Spiraling around the column like a modern-day comic strip is a narrative of the Dacian campaigns: Thousands of intricately carved Romans and Dacians march, build, fight, sail, sneak, negotiate, plead, and perish in 155 scenes. Completed in 113 CE, the column has stood for more than 1,900 years. Skip forward a millennium and a Renaissance pope replaced the statue of Trajan with one of St. Peter, to sanctify the ancient artifact.
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