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Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 417 * Height, 21 metres; width, 2570 ; depth,side arches 7*40. 7*40. Height of centre arch, 11-50, of ARCH OF CONSTANTINE. 395 the usual semi-columns (see Fig. 418), four of which, made of yellowJNumidian marble (giallo antico), stood on each side of the structure.According to Hirt, their workmanship denotes the purer style ofthe reign of Hadrian. The greater part of the sculptures, onboth sides of the structure and inside the centre arch, aretaken from the triumphal gate (according to Hirt, two differentgates) erected to Trajan for his victories over the Dacians andParthians. The arrangement of these sculptures is very tasteful.They begin at the bases of the columns, which are adorned with
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Fig. 418. large relief-figures in standing postures ; on each side of therichly decorated arch-enclosures we see two seated Yictories.After them follows, in the manner of a frieze, over the smallerentrances, a series of smaller bas-reliefs; above each of theselower bas-reliefs are two circular bas-reliefs ( medallions, eight inall), representing scenes from the private life of Trajan, to whichcorrespond eight square bas-reliefs with larger figures in the so-called Attic. The scenes represented by the last-mentionedsculptures begin, according to Brauns description, on the sideturned towards the Aventine. They commence, he says,* with an illustration of the triumphal entrance of Trajan after * In his work on the Ruins and Museums of Rome, p. 8. 396 ARCH OF CONSTANTINE. the first Dacian war, and then turn to his merits in conductingthe Yia Appia through the Pontine marshes, and in founding anorphanage. They also refer to his relations to Parthamasires, Kingof Armenia, and to Parthamaspat

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