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Trajan's Bridge (Romanian: Podul lui Traian; Serbian: Трајанов мост, romanized: Trajanov most), also called Bridge of Apollodorus over the Danube, was a Roman segmental arch bridge, the first bridge to be built over the lower Danube and considered one of the greatest achievements in Roman architecture. Though it was only functional ...
Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna Traiana, Latin: Columna Traiani) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the ...
a plaque at its base contains the inscription: statue believed to be of the roman emperor trajan/ a.d. 98–117/ imperator caesar nerva trajanus augustus/ presented by the tower hill improvement trust at the/ request of the reverend p. b. clayton, ch, mc, dd, /founder padre of toc h. [2] [3]
The plaque, known as the Tabula Traiana, records the completion of Trajan's military road along the Danube and thus commemorates the final defeat of Decebalus by Trajan in 105, and the absorption of the Dacian kingdom into the Roman Empire. Drăgan wanted the Serbs to carve a giant head of a Roman Emperor, as if confronting Decebalus on the ...
A View of Trajan's Forum, Rome is an 1821 landscape painting by the British artist Charles Lock Eastlake. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It depicts a view of Trajan's Forum in Rome , dominated by Trajan's Column . The scene features both remains of Ancient Rome and much later buildings.
A drawing and photographed carving by Eric Gill of the "Trajan" capitals on the Column of Trajan. Roman square capitals, also called capitalis monumentalis, inscriptional capitals, elegant capitals and capitalis quadrata, are an ancient Roman form of writing, and the basis for modern capital letters.
A plaque in Curtis Park honoring developer’s father erroneously states Dachau concentration camp in Poland. Critics say the undoing of earlier vote to honor Ray Eames also wrong
The Gate of Trajan or Trajan's Gate (Bulgarian: Траянови врата, romanized: Trayanovi vrata) is a historic mountain pass near Ihtiman, Bulgaria. In antiquity, the pass was called Succi . Later it was named after Roman Emperor Trajan , on whose order a fortress by the name of Stipon was constructed on the hill over the pass, as a ...