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sheltiechicago · 4 months

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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

#transylvania #romania #history #travel #majkl velner #photographer #castle #dacian draco #trajan's column #vlad the impaler #vlad dracula #virgil maierean

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ltwilliammowett · 11 months

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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.

#Museum für antike Schifffahrt #Trajan's column #Rhineland-Palatinate #Germany #ancient seafaring #early 2nd century #museum of ancient seafaring

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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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.

#quintus ennius #latin #roman #classical #quote #trajan's column #rome #battle of the bandages #war #architecture #statue #soldier #legionnaires #wounded #battle

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wgm-beautiful-world · 1 year

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Trajan's Column in Rome -

La columna Trajano en Roma -

#trajan's column #columna trajano #rome italy #roma italia #europe #europa

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azvolrien · 7 months

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Probably the most impressive section of the museum is the Cast Courts, which contain full-scale replicas of various sculptures from around the world. The main one is the copy of Trajan's Column - in two parts, as it'd be too big to fit in the museum otherwise - but another one that caught my eye was the replica of the Nigg Stone. I'm not sure if the cast includes the secular side as well as the cross side - they have it displayed flat against the wall - but you can tell it's a pretty old copy. See, the stone is actually missing a section just above the arms of the cross, but this cast has just plonked the two parts together without leaving room for the missing part. The actual stone does leave room, and includes an extra fragment that was recovered more recently:

#photo #london #v&a museum #ancient rome #trajan's column #pictish stone

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artschoolglasses · 2 years

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Trajan’s Column

Rome, Italy

#Trajan's column #rome #italy #europe #travel #travelling #ancient roman #ancient rome #ancient #roman #my photos

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honmyoseagull · 2 years

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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.)

#rome #obscure reference in fic #trevi fountain #trajan's column #pantheon #colosseum #daken

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ancientrome · 9 months

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#Column of Trajan #ancient rome #rome #roman #ruins #detail

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ancientorigins · 8 days

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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.

#Romania #Rome #Roman Empire #Decebalus #Trajan’s Column #Dacians

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illustratus · 2 years

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Imaginary View of Rome with Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Column of Trajan and a Temple

by Hubert Robert

#ancient #rome #roman #statue #statues #equestrian #marcus aurelius #column of trajan #temple #architecture #antiquity #italy #trajan’s column #fantasy #art #painting #history #europe #european

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hiddenromania · 2 years

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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.