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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 ...
Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix ("Trajan's Victorious Thirtieth Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army. Their emblems were the gods Neptune and Jupiter and the Capricorn . Ulpia is Trajan's own gens , while the cognomen " Victrix " means "victorious," and it was awarded after their valiant behaviour in the Dacian Wars .
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.
Via Appia (white) and Via Traiana (red). The Via Traiana was an ancient Roman road.It was built by the emperor Trajan as an extension of the Via Appia from Beneventum, reaching Brundisium (Brindisi) by a shorter route (i.e. via Canusium, Butuntum and Barium rather than via Tarentum).
Trajan oversaw the installation of many sculptures. This is evident as the coins of the time depict Trajan's Forum rich in statues and reliefs. In the Arch of Constantine, there is a long frieze from the Trajan era broken into four sections, but originally almost certainly part of a single relief. It is full of vibrant high-relief figures and ...
Felicior Augusto, melior Traiano or Sis felicior Augusto, melior Traiano (Latin: "be more fortunate than Augustus [and] better than Trajan) was the formula delivered in the Roman Senate at the inauguration of late Roman emperors. [1]: 8.5 The phrase
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 deathbed.
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