Column of Trajan
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling
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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.jazkarta.com/places/783489695
41.8958088, 12.48427325
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Trajan's Column (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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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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monument
- See Further:
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- Arachne 2100089: Säule des Traianus, sog. Trajanssäule Rom
- Bartoli 1751
- Boni 1912
- Coarelli 2000
- Conti 2016
- Davies 1997
- Jones 1910
- L'Esame storico-artistico della colonna traiana
- Lancaster 1999
- Rockwell 1983
- Thill 2010
- ToposText Trajan's Column (Rome)
- Wikimedia Commons Category:Trajan's Column - Cichorius Plates
- Wikipedia (English) Trajan's Column
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Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Column of Trajan: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/783489695> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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