Tropaeum Traiani

Local nameTropaeum Traiani
LocationAdamclisi, Romania

The Tropaeum Traiani or Trajanic Trophy is a monument in Roman Civitas Tropaensium, built in 109 in then Moesia Inferior, to commemorate Roman Emperor Trajan's victory over the Dacians, in the winter of 101-102, in the Battle of Adamclisi. Before Trajan's construction, an altar existed there, on the walls of which were inscribed the names of the 3,000 legionaries and auxilia who had died "fighting for the Republic"..

Compared to Trajan's Column in Rome, erected to celebrate the same victories and a "product of Roman metropolitan art", the sculpted metopes have been described as in "barbarian provincial taste", carved by "sculptors of provincial training, reveal a lack of experience infigurative representation, inorganic structure and a naive idiom that remains detached from the classical current".Trajan's monument was inspired by the Augustus mausoleum, and was dedicated to Mars Ultor in AD 107/108.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropaeum_Traiani

Address Romania

Coordinates 44°6'8.335" N 27°57'19.375" E

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