Two Heads from Trajan's Column - Item #157

  12 Inches High x 16 Inches Wide The 126-foot-tall monument, known as Trajan's Column, commemorates the Roman Emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. Trajan himself commissioned it and the forum in which it stands. Its construction was most likely ordered by the Roman Senate and supervised by Apollodorus of Damascus. This piece comes from the bas-relief frieze that spirals 23 times around the column. Although now we observe the reliefs from the ground, originally people could have viewed them from inside the two libraries that stood beside it.   Artist: Unknown Museum/Location: Trajan's Column in Trajan's Forum in Rome Origin: Trajan's Column in Trajan's Forum in Rome Time Period: Ancient Roman, 107-113 C.E. 1911 Catalog ID # - 13352   Sources: Curry, Andrew. "Trajan's Amazing Column: A War Diary Soars Over Rome." National Geographic. April 2015, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/article.html. Ramage, Nancy H. and Andrew Ramage. "Trajan, Optimus Princeps, AD 98-117.