STATUE BASE, 112 CE. FORUM OF TRAJAN This inscription dedicates a statue in front of the Basilica Ulpia to the emperor Trajan, thanking him for the construction of his forum from his own portion of the spoils from the victorious campaign in Dacia. It gives his titles, including "Dacicus", and the number of times he has held various high offices of state, from which we can identify the date as 112 CE. The text says "The Senate and the People of Rome. To Emperor Caesar, son of the divine Nerva, Nerva Trajan Augustus, Germanicus, Dacicus, Pontifex Maximus, [invested] with the tribunician power for the 16th time, acclaimed Imperator 6 times, Consul 6 times, Father of the Fatherland. To the Best Prince, because he has enhanced the Republic [the state] and the private interests of its citizens with the works of the Forum." The perfection of the letterforms in this forum arguably defined the highest development of classic Roman epigraphy.

#EpigraphyTuesday takes us into the #Forum of #Trajan in #Rome, where a statue base dedicated by the #Senate to the emperor #Trajan from 112 CE, thanking him for building the Forum. Here we have the classic #epigraphy of the early C2, perfect letterforms. #AncientBluesky 🏺

RELIEF OF TRAJAN'S COLUMN, 118-120 CE. FORUM OF TRAJAN This long helicoidal relief recounts the two campaigns of conquest waged by Trajan to conquer Dacia, in 101-102 and 105-106 CE. It was probably carved after Trajan's death and deification in 117. Originally it was richly painted and had details in metal. This scene is at the beginning of the first campaign, with the huge figure of the river-god Danube at left, watching the profectio, the soldiers marching out to start the hostilities. They are crossing a pontoon bridge built atop boats bound together as the god watches keenly.

#ReliefWednesday today celebrates the greatest of #Roman #relief art, the column of #Trajan in #Rome. It is really a funeral monument, set up by Trajan in 113 CE. The relief might date from early in the reign of #Hadrian, c. 118. This is the beginning of the Dacian campaign. #AncientBluesky 🏺

🪷 February 24th is the #Transylvania feast of #Dragobete, god of Love, Spring, snowdrops and wolves. Parents: #Dacia's loveliest maiden & Roman Emperor #Trajan, who conquered the #Dacian empire. The #wolf is Rome. It's said if you hug anyone today, your love life will be fabulous all year! 🪷

12. A bust of #Hadrian in the snow, in the garden before the Old Orangery
A philhellenic emperor, admired Greek art and culture.
Nearby busts of #Caesar, #Tiberius, #Caligula, #Trajan, and #Pompey, Caesar’s defeated rival.
An 18th-century dialogue with antiquity, now frozen in winter

Armenia Displays Artillery Systems Acquired from India Plans are afoot to acquire Su-30MKI aircraft as a high level Indian delegation visits Yerevan

Armenia Displays Artillery Systems Acquired from India

#Armenia showcased #Indian-made #ATAGS artillery systems, the #Trajan #truckmounted 155 mm howitzer, the #Pinaka multiple launch rocket and the #Akash1S air defense system during
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Armenia Displays Artillery Systems Acquired from India Plans are afoot to acquire Su-30MKI aircraft as a high level Indian delegation visits Yerevan

Armenia Displays Artillery Systems Acquired from India

#Armenia showcased #Indian-made #ATAGS artillery systems, the #Trajan #truckmounted 155 mm howitzer, the #Pinaka multiple launch rocket and the #Akash1S
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Second of the #FiveGoodEmperors, a period of unusual stability in #Rome, #Trajan took power on #ThisDayInHistory in 98. He expanded benefits for the poor, and by his death in 117 the empire reached its greatest extent, with Dacia, Nabataea, Armenia, Assyria, & Mesopotamia added.

🪷 Emperor Trajan (born 18 September 53 AD - died 8 August 117 AD) became emperor on 28 January 98 AD upon the death of #Nerva January 27th. Without #Trajan and his wife #Plotina, #Hadrian might not have become Emperor nor #Antinous a god, the last Classical deity. 🪷

Bust of Nerva, aureus of Trajan

#Emperor #Nerva died of natural causes #OTD 98AD, at 67. Chosen by the Senate after Domitian's assassination; emperor for 16 months. Considered moderate & wise, his greatest success was adopting #Trajan as his heir ensuring a peaceful transition of power.
He was the first of the #FiveGoodEmperors

[2] The Roman Senate bestowed upon #Trajan the title “Optimus”, “The Best”.

Indeed, when sworn in, later Emperors were wished "Felicior Augusto, Melior Traiano ("May you be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan.")

👑⚔️#OTD in the #History of #AncientRome 27 Jan 98 AD, #Trajan succeeded the childless Roman Emperor #Nerva, who had adopted him as his heir.

Trajan was a philanthropic ruler and successful military leader, expanding Roman territory to its greatest extent during his rule. [1]

Am Mittwoch habe ich den Stefan-Feld-Klassiker #Trajan erstmals ausprobieren können. Mit Handel, Architektur, Eroberungen und politischem Einfluss wollen die Spielenden im Römischen Reich die meisten Punkte sammeln. Aktionen... [1/6]

#Brettspiele #Brettspiel #BoardGames #StefanFeld

London. Statue of Emperor Trajan (AD 98-117). Presented by Rev. Philip B. Clayton. Photo: 13.07.2024. #London #statue #Trajan #PhilipClayton

'Emperor Caesar Nerva #Trajan Augustus.

Conqueror of #Germany, son of the #God #Nerva, high priest, with tribunician power, father of his country, consul for the third time the 2nd Augustan #Legion dedicates this.'

#RomanBritain #Isca #Caerleon #Archaeology #EpigraphyTuesday

#art #roma #emperor #trajan #column
Trajan column. Roma.
Personal pictures 2004. Part 2

#art #roma #emperor #trajan #column
Trajan column. Roma.
Personal pictures 2004. Part 1

Images of the front and back of the bust of Marciana

Images of the front and back of the bust of Marciana

This is Marciana, sister of the #Roman Emperor #Trajan & grandmother of Sabina, wife of Emperor Hadrian. It was carved during the reign of #Hadrian but captures the complex #hairstyles during Trajan's reign. The style uses hairpieces with concealed frameworks.
Metropolitan Museum - New York.

#RomanSiteSaturday
Carsium was a fortress built in the #Roman province of Moesia in the 1st C AD by the #Emperor #Trajan on campaign against Dacia.

The Ist Italica #legion stationed there. It defended the province and the River #Danube.
#Archaeology #Military #History #Romania

The picture shows A’s player board and the main board of Trajan. It’s an intense game and also quite colourful.

Today we chose Trajan. It’s our least played Feld game as it is quite intense. In the first couple of rounds we both lost points by not being able to fulfil the requests of the population. M did a lot of shipping and military actions which was the margin of victory.
#boardgames #trajan

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The actual Roman authors of the New Testament:

Emperor Trajan And Pliny The Younger: Mutual Ancestry This is from a paper which I had written some time ago. The basis for discovering and confirming this is the work of Sir Ronald Syme; particularly, his paper titled 'Domitius Corbulo' (JRS, 19...

Pliny The Younger & his cousin Emperor Trajan, wrote letters to each other about what to do about Christians, and did so as a means to advertise the religion that Pliny helped to create. As Paul, he wrote of places of vice to advertise those as well. #Trajan #Pliny

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Emperor Trajan And Pliny The Younger: Mutual Ancestry This is from a paper which I had written some time ago. The basis for discovering and confirming this is the work of Sir Ronald Syme; particularly, his paper titled 'Domitius Corbulo' (JRS, 19...

Pliny The Younger & his cousin Emperor Trajan, wrote letters to each other about what to do about Christians & did so as a means to advertise the religion that Pliny helped create. As Paul, Pliny wrote of places of vice to advertise those as well. #Trajan #Genealogy

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From bronze and fire… a monument rises. 🔥

Struck nearly 1,900 years ago, this Dupondius of Emperor Trajan carries the image of Trajan’s Column — the towering chronicle of his victories in Dacia.

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Busts of Nerva and Trajan

#OTD 28 Oct AD97 the ageing & childless Emperor Nerva was coerced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt Trajan as his successor. #Nerva was the first #Roman# Emperor to be elected by the senate & his adoption of #Trajan ushered in the period of the adoptive 'Five Good Emperors'.

Busts of Nerva & Trajan.

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FRIEZE/ARCHITRAVE, 113 CE. TRAJAN'S MARKETS This huge piece of Luni marble comes from Trajan's rebuilding of the temple of Venus Genetrix in the Forum of Julius Caesar. In fact the construction of the Forum of Trajan required a major reconstruction of the Forum Iulii and of the streets and neighbourhood behind it, including major structures like the Atrium Libertatis where the ceremony of manumission was held and the records of the freeing of slaves were kept. As a result, the already magnificent temple of Venus the Ancestress, Caesar's divine antecedent, was rebuilt in even grander style. Here we have a wonderful procession of Erotes, multiplications of the son of Venus and therefore a direct reference to Caesar's ancestry. At left an Eros is pouring wine from an amphora into a large bowl held by another Eros, while at centre two more cherubs are struggling with the arrows of Apollo and at right two more are holding the shield of Athena, with the Gorgoneion on it. This frieze once adorned the first order of an interior wall of the temple. A mirror below shows a decoration of coffers containing rosettes on the underside.

For #ReliefWednesday we're in the #MuseodeiForiImperiali in #TrajansMarkets, to look at an exquisite fragment showing a #relief of #Erotes from the temple of #VenusGenetrix in the Forum of #Caesar, rebuilt by #Trajan. #AncientBluesky 🏺

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The #Trajan #Market is a large complex of #Archaeology #historical #ruins named after the #roman #emporor Trajan in the city of #Rome, #Italy, located on the Via dei Fori #Imperiali, near to the #Colosseum #PictureOfTheDay #worldtravelpics for more see www.darrensmith.org.uk