Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . and ofwhich we get a glimpse on slabs 253, 254 (C, Plate LXX) xciv above on the right. We next find the Dacians attacking aRoman fort (249-251), from which they are repulsed withgreat loss of life, their dead and wounded lying heaped inthe foreground, while further to the right another Dacianforce has been storming Roman entrenchments; the xcv Romans are sore pressed ; they hurriedly build a third xcvi wall, but almost at once pull it down again (254), for helpin the person of Trajan himself, riding at the head of hisxcvii cavalry, is at hand (255
Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . and ofwhich we get a glimpse on slabs 253, 254 (C, Plate LXX) xciv above on the right. We next find the Dacians attacking aRoman fort (249-251), from which they are repulsed withgreat loss of life, their dead and wounded lying heaped inthe foreground, while further to the right another Dacianforce has been storming Roman entrenchments; the xcv Romans are sore pressed ; they hurriedly build a third xcvi wall, but almost at once pull it down again (254), for helpin the person of Trajan himself, riding at the head of hisxcvii cavalry, is at hand (255, 256); the Prince apparentlyarrives by the same road which was being constructed on241, 242. After victory follows another of those grandiosexcviii scenes of sacrifice, for which the artists of this second halfof the sculptured spiral show such a fondness. In thebackground, Trajans famous bridge over the Danube, con-structed by ApoUodorus, the architect of the Forum,* is* The bridge, in process of construction, already appears in PLATE LVIII. To/ace p. lJ3 l!(»LI (IF ( IllKlTAINs; rr<ij,ni „nn THE TRAJAN COLUMN 193 seen extending between two fortified camps. In the fore- xcixground Trajan, surrounded by the usual attendants, poursthe libation over the garlanded altar. In the next scene he receives a mixed embassy of cbarbaric peoples, foremost among which are representativesof a Germanic race, with long hair tied up in a knot overthe right ear (263). These are the lineal descendants ofthe Germans on the Augustan monument at come the familiar Dacians, and on the left (262)—forming a superb group worthy of a Florentine master ofthe stamp of Masaccio—are five men, in costumes hithertounrepresented on the column (Plate LVIIL). The threeon the right wear long coats, reaching to the ankle, and overthese a kind of short-waisted corslet. They are both bare-headed, though the man to the left wears a fillet; yet theyare warmly clad, for besides the long slee
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