Trajan's Column

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Trajan's Column

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Trajan's Column commemorates the eponymous emperor's victory in the two Dacian wars (102-3; 105-6). The column, which was completed in 113, is almost all that is left standing of Trajan's Forum, the last of the great imperial fora to be built in ancient Rome.

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Base of Trajan's Column

A detail of Trajan's Column

The scant remains of the Basilica Ulpia with Trajan's Column in the background

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