Monumentul a trophy of Trajan 's de la Adamclisi, Dobrogea

Monumentul a trophy of Trajan 's de la Adamclisi - details and images

North of the village Adamclisi, in an area of forested hills, is "the triumphal monument that is still standing remnants of the famous flying Tropaeum Traiani.Tot there was also the remains of the altar the ancient Roman mauzoleul with metopes, and friezes trophy with battlements from the memorial museum are arranged.

Triumphal monument is part of a complex Arhelologic Traiani Tropaeum consisting of triumphal monument, tomb or tumulus behind the altar and commemorative high solatii fallen in battle.

Built in honor of emperor Trajan in 106-109 years, a testament to defeat the coalition formed by the Geto-Dacians and Sarmatians Boers, after fighting with them worn by the Romans in 102, Tropaeum Traiani memorial is truly a source of information about events of the early history of the Roman people.

The complex is arranged in the form of an isosceles triangle, its base is marked by a monument and burial mound, and the triangle is placed on top of the altar.

Triumphal monument was built, according to the inscription, between 106-109, after the project's Apollodorus of Damascus. It is a cylindrical building, with steps at the base, and the diameter is 40m. In the middle area were 54 metopes, that play fighting between the Romans and allies if King. Framed by friezes and reliefs were separated by ornamental pilasters. At the top is festooned an attic, equipped with 27 battlements, which were included on prisoners. Above the core is a high conical roof clad in stone flakes, and a hexagonal socket 6 m high, which stated "trophy itself, which is a classic trunk dressed in armor with weapons, having arms and legs all prisoners carved in stone. On one side of hexagon socket was deciphered an inscription which shows that the monument was dedicated to "the god Mars, the avenger" by "Nerva Traian August emperor and Caesar, the winner of the Germans and the Dacians, the son of the divine Nerva, High Priest, to XIII the time a tribune for the sixth time the emperor, for the fifth time, consul, father of the fatherland. "
The significance of the complex was notified by Gregory Tocilescu, which showed that the monument is a birth certificate, a stone of the Roman people.

Near Mauzoleul memorial was erected in memory of a Roman senior officer; mauzoleul Tocilescu Gregory was discovered in 1897 inside a "mound" of earth.

Within walking distance to the east is found shrine, built by order of Emperor Trajan in memory of soldiers fallen in battle, all the researched Tocilescu Gregory, the shrine is a rectangular shape, with sides of 12 m and a height of 6m. After fragementele the inscription on the altar appeared was estimated that about 4,000 names of soldiers killed during the clash formidable Adamclisi plateau.

North-west Adamclisi village in the middle hills of the valley Urluia origin, on a plateau, there is another group of Roman remains: City Tropaeum Traiani whose ruins were excavated and identified by Gregory Tocilescu years 1891-1909, then by V. Parvan in 1911.

Considered to be the largest civil settlement in the territory Romanian Dobrogea and built at the same time memorial, the city was inhabited by families of veterans who took part in Trajan's Dacian wars and there have been colonized. The city had reached the rank of "municipium" the time of Emperor Septimius Severus (193-211) but was destroyed by the Goths had to be rebuilt from scratch as shown in an inscription from the year 316 by Emperor Constantine the Great care. On this occasion the city was endowed with new massive defensive walls, but still unable to resist the destructive attacks of the Avars (587), it was finally abandoned and disappeared from the stage of history, after an existence for over five centuries.

Archaeological research has revealed precincts with 4 gates, the main street, 7 Christian basilicas, a basilica and other buildings in the city forum, continuing even today.

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