Trajans Column Rome Photograph by Weston Westmoreland

Trajan's Column Rome

by Weston Westmoreland

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Title

Trajan's Column Rome

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

Trajan's Column. Imperial forums. Rome.

Night view of the largest of the two columns remaining in Rome by the Church of the Most Holy Name of Mary at the Trajan Forum.

Trajan's Column commemorates Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It is located in Trajan's Forum. Completed in AD 113, the freestanding column is most famous for its spiral bas-relief, which describes the wars between Romans and Dacians.

The Dacians had been harassing the empire from its borders around Hungary for a long time. Their technology in swords (falx or falcata), which pierced Roman helmets and shields, and skill in war had resisted Rome's power until Trajan defeated them. It was with the spoils of this war that Trajan remade the Imperial Forums and built this column.

To defeat the Dacians, Trajan had a bridge across the Danube built by Apollodorus of Damascus, who would later complete Trajan's reform and expansion of the Imperial Forums. The structure was 1,135 m (3,724 ft) long, 15 m (49 ft) wide, and 19 m (62 ft) high, measured from the surface of the river. A Roman castrum protected each end. It remained functional for just a few decades, but it was the longest arch bridge in both total and span length ever built for over 1,000 years.

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