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Trajan's column
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12th Grade
09/12/2014

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Date Built
Definition
113 AD
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Height
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38.1m
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Length of relief
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200m
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Material used for shaft
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Carrara marble
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No. and weight of marble drums
Definition
18 drums, 40 tons ea.
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Location
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near Quirinal Hill, between two libraries (Greek, Latin) behind Bascilica Ulpia, in front of Temple to Trajan and Plotina
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1st Roman campaign against Dacia date
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101-102 AD
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2nd Roman campaign against Dacia date
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105-106 AD
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No. of times relief band winds around shaft
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23
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Chief architect
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Apollodorus of Domascus
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Practical function
Definition
Dealing with overflow of political, legal and commercial business from the original Roman forum
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Details of the forum
Definition
Open piazza, porticoes with Corinthian columns and Dacian prisoners. Equestrian statue of Trajan in middle.
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