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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
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rajan, on the occasion of both these monuments being cleanedand restored. Fig. 415 shows a design of Canina of the columnwith its original surroundings. Like the first-mentioned column,it consists of large cylindrical blocks of marble worked, on theinside, into a winding staircase of at present 190 steps. Accordingto an inscription found near it, its height is 100 old Roman feet. * SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMAN US IMP CAESARI D1TI NERVAEF NERVAE TRAIANO AUG GERM DACICO PONTIF MAXIMO TRIEPOT XVII IMP VI COS VI P P AD PECLARANDUM QUANTAEALTITUDINIS MONS ET LOCUS TANTIS OPERIBUS SIT EGESTUS. TRIUMPHAL ARCHES AND GATES. The shaft is like that of the column of Trajan, but the pedestalis considerably higher in this case ; part of it is now hidden by theearth. The bas-reliefs winding round the column in twenty spiralcurves refer to the wars of the emperor with the Marcomans andother tribes to the north of the Lower Danube (compare § 107).Triumphal arches were frequently erected by the Romans, in
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J>ig. 415. this case without the aid of numerous models in Greek architec-ture. Both by their character and destination these structuresare essentially Roman. The custom of arranging festive pageantsin celebration of happy events soon led to the erection oftriumphal gates for the procession to pass through. Besides 392 TRIUMPHAL ARCHES. decorating the gates of the city for the occasion, the Romans used toerect detached gates of a monumental character. Such triumphalarches might be the reward of all kinds of civic merit. Anarch erected to Augustus at Araminium (Rimini) celebrated hisconstruction of the Flaminian road from that town to Rome ;an arch, still standing, on the jetty of Ancona records Trajansrestoration of that harbour ; another arch at Beneventum wasdedicated to the same emperor for his restoration of the ViaAppia ; an arch still preserved, near the Olympicum, commemo-rates the building of a new splendid quarter of Athens by Hadrian.The so-called arch of the Sergii at Po

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