Tropaeum Traiani

Metope XVII: Roman equipped with a helmet with broad neckguard, brow guard, cheekpiece and bowl reinforced; short-sleeved scale shirt with double rows of pteryges and a *manica* on his right arm, encased in scale armour; curved rectangular shield with raised border, gamma corner symbols and a central boss. The bearded standing enemy wears a Phrygian cap and baggy garments, and wields a two-handed falx.

The Tropaeum Traiani or Trajan's Trophy lies 1.4 km northeast of the Roman city of Civitas Tropaensium (near the modern Adamclisi, Romania). It was built in AD 109 in then Moesia Inferior, to commemorate Roman Emperor Trajan's victory over the Dacians in 106, including the victory at the Battle of Adamclisi nearby in 102.^[1]

It was part of a monumental complex comprising the trophy monument, the tumulus grave behind it and the commemorative altar, raised in 102 AD for soldiers fallen in the battles of this region. The complex forms a triangular plan, the base being marked by the monument and the funerary tumulus while the upper point is the altar.

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