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Suovetaurilia in a military setting, from Trajan's Column Some religious rites similar to the Roman suovetaurilia were practiced by a few other Indo-European peoples, from Iberia to India. The Cabeço das Fráguas inscript (found in Portugal ) describes a threefold sacrifice practiced by the Lusitanians , devoting a sheep, a pig and a bull to ...
Just like in 87/88, the battle took place at Tapae where Trajan engaged in a fierce battle with the bulk of his army. The clash, as illustrated on Trajan's Column, [3] was favourable to the Romans but at the cost of great bloodshed. [4] A storm broke out and the Dacians believing it a sign from the gods, decided to withdraw.
Via Traiana was constructed in 109 AD by Emperor Trajan at his own expense. It was built during a period of relative freedom from military campaigns. [3] Thus the Via Appia, from which Via Traiana was constructed as an extension, lost its original importance as a military highroad that connected Venosa (Venusia) and Taranto (Tarentum).
According to Cassius Dio, it was Trajan who raised both the II Traiana and the XXX Ulpia Victrix, [1] but the details and order are not clear. H.M.D. Parker has argued that the XXX Ulpia was raised first, at the time there were 29 legions, then after Legio XXI Rapax vanished—either destroyed in battle against barbarian invaders or in a civil disturbance—the II Traiana came into existence.
Relief of Trajan's Column, published by Cichorius. Conrad Cichorius (25 May 1863 in Leipzig – 20 January 1932 in Bonn) was a German historian and classical philologist.He is known for publishing a complete survey of the reliefs of Trajan's Column, which still forms the basis of modern scholarship.
A group of soldiers, having laid down their weapons, begin to cut down trees and build a road towards a fortified city inside the forest, perhaps in Oltenia Decebalus takes part in a war council with some Dacian nobles inside a fort, while other dignitaries gather from various parts, as the plain and mountains depicted in the background suggest
After the First Battle of Tapae in 86 AD, one of the most humiliating defeats [1] of the period and in which Rome lost two entire legions, a year of peace followed.. When the war was resumed after a year of preparations, Domitian promoted as new commander in chief, Tettius Julianus.
Nerva was the first of the dynasty. [3] Though his reign was short, it saw a partial reconciliation between the army, the senate and the commoners. Nerva adopted as his son the popular military leader Trajan. In turn, Hadrian succeeded Trajan; he had been the latter's heir presumptive, and averred that he had been adopted by him on Trajan's ...