Arch of Trajan (Ancona)
The Arch of Trajan of Ancona (Italian: Arco di Traiano ) is a one-gate Roman arch of honor .
The arch was built between 100 and 115 AD by Apollodorus of Damascus in honor of the Emperor Trajan at the port of Ancona. Trajan chose the Adriatic city as the starting point for his ship expeditions and had the port fortified with an imposing pier. The arch carried statues of the emperor, his wife Plotina and his sister Ulpia Marciana . The investigation of the inscriptions led Cyriacus of Ancona to the field of epigraphy , which was founded by him , around 1420 . Sebastiano Serlio describes the arch in his Seven Books on Architecture in 1540, saying that it was "still intact because of its strong strength, but many ornaments have been stolen from it. The portrait of Emperor Traian was in copper on top, sitting on a horse there were also other copper pictures between the pillars and the cornice and various decorations " . Traces of the fortification can still be seen of the bronze ship's beaks once attached between the Corinthian columns .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Serlio, Il terzo libro, chap. 4, quoted from Kauffmann, p. 21.
literature
- Georg Kauffmann : Emilia-Romagna, Marken, Umbria (Reclams Art Guide Italy, Volume IV), Stuttgart 1971, pp. 21-22.
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Coordinates: 43 ° 37 ′ 31 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 23.4 ″ E