Column of Trajan
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling
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Apr 16, 2023 04:59 PM
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History
The Column of Trajan (or Trajan's Column) is a victory column that was erected in the Forum of Trajan at Rome ca. 113 in order to commemorate Trajan's victories in the Dacian Wars. The column is particularly noted for its helical historiated bas relief frieze decoration.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/783489695
41.8958088, 12.48427325
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Trajan's Column (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Colonna Traiana (Italian, modern)
- Column of Trajan (English, modern)
- Columna Traiana (Latin, unspecified date range)
- Säule des Traianus (German, modern)
- Trajanssäule (Die) (Trajanssaule: German, unspecified date range)
- Column of Trajan part of (analytical) Forum Traiani (unspecified date range)
- Column of Trajan located at Roma (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Column of Trajan: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/783489695> [accessed: 08 December 2023]
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