The timeless tale of King Decebal's resistance, immortalized in stone, is a symbol of national pride. From ancient Rome to modern Romania, his spirit lives on in a colossal rock sculpture.
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Imaginary View of Rome with Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Column of Trajan and a Temple
by Hubert Robert
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Photo By Majkl Velner
Transylvania’s Infamous Reputation Has Made it a Hidden Gem
Dacian Draco on Trajan's Column.
Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula
The famous Bran Castle, also known as Dracula's Castle.
Photo By Virgil Maierean
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Mainz, Museum für antike Schifffahrt, Detail der Trajanssäule (Museum of Ancient shipping, detail of Trajan's column) von HEN-Magonza
Trajan was Roman Emperor from 98 - 117 and under his reign the empire experienced its greatest expansion through the conquest of Armenia, Mesopotamia and especially the Dacian Empire (today Romania). Trajan's Column at the Roman Trajan Forum is a triumphal monument, erected to celebrate the emperor and to remind the Romans of the efforts of the emperor and the army during the wars against the Dacians.
The monument consists of a cube-shaped base to hold Trajan's ashes and a 27 m high column shaft covered with a spiral frieze 1 m high and 200 m long. It took only 5 years to complete the immense sculptural work (2,500 figures) and the column was inaugurated in 113, a year after the completion of Trajan's Forum. In this monument, Trajan (who is depicted a total of 60 times) and the army were depicted as dedicated to unity, since, according to Trajan's conviction, only unity can lead to victory. At the very top, on a platform, there was originally a gilded statue of Trajan, which was melted down in the Middle Ages. From 1587, a statue of the apostle Peter, which has survived to the present day, stands there.
The Mainz Museum of Ancient Seafaring owns several casts of Trajan's Column showing ship scenes during the campaign against the Dacians.
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Aegroto, dum anima est, spes est.*
- Quintus Ennius
While the sick person has life, there is hope.*
Sometimes referred to as the 'Battle of the Bandages' scene, this depicts a scene from Trajan's Column in Rome. It contains the only known depiction of Roman soldiers receiving medical treatment in battle. Look carefully to the right and see a Roman soldier bandage another wounded comrade.
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Trajan's Column in Rome -
La columna Trajano en Roma -
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Badea Cârțan (1849-1911)
Badea Cârțan made a journey on foot to Rome, and when he arrived at the city's edge after 45 days, said, "Bine te-am găsit, maica Roma" ("Pleased to meet you, mother Rome").
He wished to see Trajan's Column with his own eyes, as well as other evidences of the Latin origin of the Romanian people.
After pouring Romanian soil and wheat at the column's base, he wrapped himself in a peasant's coat (cojoc) and fell asleep at the column's base.
The next day he was awakened by a policeman who shouted in amazement, "A Dacian has fallen off the column!", as Cârţan was dressed just like the Dacians carved into the column; the event was reported in Roman newspapers and Duiliu Zamfirescu, Romanian representative in Italy.
He was a self-taught ethnic Romanian shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania (then under Hungarian rule inside Austria-Hungary), distributing Romanian-language books that he secretly brought from Romania to their villages. In all he smuggled some 200,000 books for pupils, priests, teachers and peasants; he used several routes to pass through the Făgăraş Mountains.
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Trajan's Column, Rome.
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2023_06_06
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Trajans Column 2/7/2024
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Dedf1sh is Missing
Last seen playing the Xylophone at the Column of Trajan
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Column of Trajan.
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Trajan’s Column
Rome, Italy
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The Trevi Fountain, aka Daken’s fountain. (Remember the nice cover by Stephanie Hans?)
Anyway, under the cut, very ooooold photos of Rome with my crappy camera at the time and with the problem that I don’t know WHY but the whole city was basically scaffolding… ^^;;
Anyway, that’s just a little bonus for the people who have read Kill, Fuck, Love. (Love you, darlings.)
The Pantheon at night.
Blurry picture of a blurry moon through the Pantheon’s oculus.
Trajan’s column. (It survived Bullseye all right.)
The Forum.
The Colosseum.
The author. (Kidding.)
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