Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . sing left portion of this slab. The gods, however, areno longer the canonical Olympians of the State religion,but the four divinities—Liber and Libera, Diana and Sil-vanus—given as protectors to the newly conquered Dacianprovinces (Plate LXV). They are represented welcomingRoman rule as personified in the Emperor. This allegoryof Northern conquest is balanced on the other side of theinscription by a scene from the East, where Mesopotamia,tkneeling between her rivers, recommends herself to themercy of the Emperor, who is accompanied by Hadrian. J •
Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . sing left portion of this slab. The gods, however, areno longer the canonical Olympians of the State religion,but the four divinities—Liber and Libera, Diana and Sil-vanus—given as protectors to the newly conquered Dacianprovinces (Plate LXV). They are represented welcomingRoman rule as personified in the Emperor. This allegoryof Northern conquest is balanced on the other side of theinscription by a scene from the East, where Mesopotamia,tkneeling between her rivers, recommends herself to themercy of the Emperor, who is accompanied by Hadrian. J • Frothingham, Fig. lo. t So von Domaszewski, p. 185. Petersen had considered theprovince to be Dacia. t In the distinguished-looking individual of foreign mien Domaszewski proposes to recognise the Moorishgeneral, Lusius Quietus, already known from the Trajan was the most important of the generals engaged in theParthian war, and would be in place here bringing Mesopotamiaspecially to Trajans notice. PLATE LXV. AUCll OF AT ISKNEVJ Fiiriwi the ciiiuti-i/. THE PRINCIPATE OF TRAJAN 219 The rivers are shown as crouching figures. The Euphrates,on the left, sits by his own bridge which the Romans arecrossing.* The scenes enacted in the attic are again finely balancedby the two lower scenes of the pylons. On the rightPetersen has acutely i-ecognized the episode of 114 ,narrated by Cassius Dio, Ixviii. 18 (ed. Boissevain, 2o6),when Trajan received an embassy from the Parthians,who, here on the ai-ch, are introduced by their patronHercules, and who, moreover, bring with them as a gift,the wonderful horse who had been taught to prostratehimself. Then, on the corresponding panel of the left pylon,the Emperor receives the oath of fealty of the Germans,in presence of Jupiter Feretrius, the god of oaths—anadmirably balanced composition, with a greater feelingfor space and depth than is commonly found in The skilful geographi
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