Trajan’s Column: Quick Facts

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Trajan's Column

Close-up of Trajan's Column in Rome, showing detailed spiral relief carvings of Roman soldiers, ships, and battle scenes.

Trajan's campaign in Dacia

Trajan's Column, memorial with marble reliefs illustrating the two Dacian wars of 101–102 and 105–106; ad 106–113. In Trajan's Forum, Rome.

plaster cast of Trajan's Column

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