Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . part of Campaign. {Cichorius, Scenes lxxix-c,—Plates Lviii. to Lxxiii.—Froehner, Plates 108-130.) Immediately to the right of the trophy, the preliminariesof the second campaign are depicted, including the Princesdeparture from an Italian seaport and his subsequentvoyage. These events spread over a number of slabs(Nos. 207-230), which are among the most interesting ofthe whole column. Animated seafaring scenes interminglewith sumptuous episodes of departure or grand ceremonials,shown amid the beautiful architecture of three distinctLxxix seaports.
Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . part of Campaign. {Cichorius, Scenes lxxix-c,—Plates Lviii. to Lxxiii.—Froehner, Plates 108-130.) Immediately to the right of the trophy, the preliminariesof the second campaign are depicted, including the Princesdeparture from an Italian seaport and his subsequentvoyage. These events spread over a number of slabs(Nos. 207-230), which are among the most interesting ofthe whole column. Animated seafaring scenes interminglewith sumptuous episodes of departure or grand ceremonials,shown amid the beautiful architecture of three distinctLxxix seaports. The first of these is now almost universallyadmitted to be Ancona (207, 2o8). High up on the left,within its sacred precincts, is the Temple of Venus. Ante domum Veneris, quam Dorica sustinet Ancon.(Juvenal, iv. 40.) The image of the goddess, in the attitude of the FenusGenetrix,* is seen through the open doors. From thisheight, where the Cathedral of San Ciriaco now replaces ? S. Keinach ia f\evne Archiologique, 1905, v. pp. J G THE TRAJAN COLUMN 187 the shrine of Venus, a road comes winding down to theseashore, where it ends in an arch surmounted by thestatues of three divinities. This must certainly be thefamous Arch of Trajan, erected by the Emperor to com-memorate the restoration, at his own expense, of theharbour of Ancona ( ix., 5894).* Although this resto-ration was not completed till 115 , and the column wasalready put up two years earlier, in 113 , it has beenplausibly argued by Cichorius and others that the archalready planned, and perhaps on the way to completion,might well be i-epresented on the column out of compli-ment to Trajan (Plate LVI.). The triad of statues that crowns the arch representsPoseidon t or else Palaemon-Portunus,J the god of hai-bours—in the attitude of the Lysippian Poseidon in the Lateran— with the Dioscuri in their character of patrons of sailors,§This whole picture, from the shrine of Venus above to thearch
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