Trajan's Column - Rome, Italy - Freestanding Columns on Waymarking.com

Trajan's column was erected in 113 AD in honor of emperor Trajan. The freestanding column is most famous for its spiral bas relief, which commemorates Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars.
A band of beautifully carved reliefs winds around the column. The band is more than 180m/600ft long. Its width varies from 60cm (2ft) at the bottom to 120cm (4ft) at the top. There are more than 2000 carved figures depicting the story of Trajan's Dacian wars between 101-102 and 105-106 A.D. It starts with soldiers preparing for the war and ends with the Dacians being ousted from their homeland. The column consists of 29 pieces of white marble, the largest one weighing up to 77 tons. The reliefs were not always in plain white: originally they were gilded and, like many roman monuments, brightly colored. The Trajan column including its base is 42m high (138ft). This was exactly the height of the hill that stood at this site. It had been leveled to create an open space for the construction of Trajan's Forum.
Initially, a statue of an eagle topped the column, but after Trajan's death it was replaced by a 6 meter (20ft) tall statue of the emperor himself. His ashes and later those of his wife Plotina were placed in the base of the column. In 1587 the statue was replaced again, this time by one of St. Peter.

Documentation (website): [Web Link] Type of Column: Other Location: The column is located at Trajan's forum - part of the Imperial Forums - at the Via dei Fori Imperiali, right next to the Piazza Venezia in Rome.

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