Identifier: ramblesinromearc00forb (find matches)
Title: Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Forbes, S. Russell
Subjects: Art -- Rome Rome -- Guidebooks Rome -- Antiquities
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Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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as-reliefs, representing the Dacian war, forms a spiral round the shaftof the pillar. Erected a.d. 114. It is 127 feet high, including thebase, and is surmounted by a statue of S. Peter, 11 feet high, jjlacedthere by Sixtus V. in the sixteenth century. The pillar is composed of thirty-four blocks of white marble. Thereliefs are two feet high at the bottom, and gradually increase insize as they go upwards, thus making the figures at the top andbottom seem of equal size. There are two thousand five hundredfigures, besides animals and other details. Dion Cassius (Xiphilin, Trajan) says : He erected in the forumthat bears his name a vast pillar, as well to serve as a receptacle forhis bones as to be a monument of his magnificence to posterity.In good earnest, it was a piece of work that could not be finishedwithout extraordinary expense, because it was necessary to cut PLAN OF THE FORUM OF TRAJAN TEMPLEofTRAJAN 1 ; JJ ;j?j • > JJ-i , COLUMN I ItiAjtjTT :JtlBR»ByJ \ ■p r LlBRARYi^:
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220 llA.MliLK IV. through a mouutaiu as high as the piUai, to make the level for theforum. The bones of Trajan were put into the pillar we have mentioned;and, to reverence his memory, sports were celebrated for severalyears after, which were called Parthica (Dion Cassius, Hadrian). Trajan, of all the emperors, was buried within the city. Hisbones, being put up in a golden urn, lie in the forum which he built,imder a pillar, whose height is 144 feet, Roman (Eutropius). Going down the Via Alessandrina, ^ohich commences at the left-hand corner of the above forum, as toe come into it, take the first turningon the left, Via Campo Carleo. The .gate on the left leads to thedoable row of shops that surrounded the Forum of Trajan. Custodiat the Forum. Following this street, we pass the medieval Torre del Grilleon our left. On our right are massive remains of the Second WallOF Rome. (See page xviii.) Turning to the right under the arch, we are within THE FORUM OF AUGUSTUS. The reason of his bui

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