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Trajan's Forum: Overall view with tourists

Date

Circa 1910

Creator

G. Massiot & cie

Location

Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries

Chronologically the last of the Imperial fora in Rome. The forum was constructed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus, who worked for Trajan first as a military engineer. The forum, built in AD 107-113 and famous in antiquity for its magnificence, built with the spoils of the Dacian Wars, was a boldly conceived project that involved the removal of part of the Quirinal Hill. The main entrance was marked by a triumphal arch erected in AD 117 soon after Trajan's death. A high colonnaded retaining wall enclosed the forum proper (89 x 118 m exclusive of exedrae). The forum contained the Basilica Ulpia, libraries, a temple and Trajan's Column.

Chronologically the last of the Imperial fora in Rome. The forum was constructed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus, who worked for Trajan first as a military engineer. The forum, built in AD 107-113 and famous in antiquity for its magnificence, built with the spoils of the Dacian Wars, was a boldly conceived project that involved the removal of part of the Quirinal Hill. The main entrance was marked by a triumphal arch erected in AD 117 soon after Trajan's death. A high colonnaded retaining wall enclosed the forum proper (89 x 118 m exclusive of exedrae). The forum contained the Basilica Ulpia, libraries, a temple and Trajan's Column.
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G. Massiot & cie
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