Trajan's Column stands in Rome, completed around 113 AD and attributed to the architect and engineer Apollodorus of Damascus, commissioned to commemorate the Roman emperor Trajan's victories in the Dacian Wars against the kingdom of Dacia in what is now Romania. The column rises roughly 30 meters on a tall pedestal, its shaft wrapped from base to top by a continuous helical band of carved marble relief, some 190 meters unrolled, depicting a detailed narrative of Roman military campaigns, sieges and construction works across more than two hundred individual scenes. The column originally supported a bronze statue of Trajan at its summit, which disappeared during the medieval period; Pope Sixtus V had it replaced in the sixteenth century with the current bronze statue of Saint Peter, which stands atop the column today. Trajan's ashes were reportedly placed in a golden urn within the column's base after his death, an honor otherwise unknown for a burial inside Rome's ancient city walls, and the column has survived largely intact for nearly two thousand years, making its spiraling relief one of the most complete surviving records of Roman imperial military practice.
Facts
Building Type LocationTrajan's Forum, Rome, Italy 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
Uses Element
Source Trajan's Column, Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Arts and Music Atlas: Trajan's Column, the same subject.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
Sources
1. Trajan's Column, Wikipedia
Lead paragraph, type
Trajan's Column is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars.
Lead paragraph, setting
located in Trajan's Forum, north of the Roman Forum
Lead paragraph, dedication date
Completed and dedicated on 12 May 113 AD
Description, dimensions
The structure is about 30 metres (98 feet) in height, 35 metres (115 feet) including its large pedestal.
- Wikipedia "Trajan's Column" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Trajan's Column stands in Rome, completed around 113 AD and attributed to the architect and engineer Apollodorus of Damascus, commissioned to commemorate the Roman emperor Trajan's victories in the Dacian Wars against the kingdom of Dacia in what is now Romania. The column rises roughly 30 meters on a tall pedestal, its shaft wrapped from base to top by a continuous helical band of carved marble relief, some 190 meters unrolled, depicting a detailed narrative of Roman military campaigns, sieges and construction works across more than two hundred individual scenes. The column originally supported a bronze statue of Trajan at its summit, which disappeared during the medieval period; Pope Sixtus V had it replaced in the sixteenth century with the current bronze statue of Saint Peter, which stands atop the column today. Trajan's ashes were reportedly placed in a golden urn within the column's base after his death, an honor otherwise unknown for a burial inside Rome's ancient city walls, and the column has survived largely intact for nearly two thousand years, making its spiraling relief one of the most complete surviving records of Roman imperial military practice.
Uses Element: Marble, Wikipedia lead
The shaft is made from a series of 20 colossal Carrara marble drums, each weighing about 32 tons, with a diameter of 3.7 metres (12.1 feet).
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