Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . is thought is expressed in the correspond-ing upper panel of the right pylon. Here Mars looks atRoma, whom he grasps by the hand,t while Trajan presentsto them two children who seem to spring from the field of corn symbolized by the ploughshare—itselfthe token of the Roman colonies—shows that the childrenrepresent the proles Romana, whom Trajan was so keen tofoster in the provinces, and whom, on the foregoing slab,we saw him enlisting in the Roman army. J The reliefs of the eastern fa9ade of the Arch of Bene-vento give pictorial expressi
Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine . is thought is expressed in the correspond-ing upper panel of the right pylon. Here Mars looks atRoma, whom he grasps by the hand,t while Trajan presentsto them two children who seem to spring from the field of corn symbolized by the ploughshare—itselfthe token of the Roman colonies—shows that the childrenrepresent the proles Romana, whom Trajan was so keen tofoster in the provinces, and whom, on the foregoing slab,we saw him enlisting in the Roman army. J The reliefs of the eastern fa9ade of the Arch of Bene-vento give pictorial expression to the leading characteristicof Trajans foreign policy, which was to raise the provincesto equality with Rome—an elaboration of the Augustanpolicy which, as shown by the monument of Ancyra, wasin reality restricted to Rome and Italy, and considered * Frothingham, Fig. 7. t In her extended right hand, now broken, Roma probablyheld the globe, as symbol of dominion over the Orhis Rotnanus(von Domaszewski, p. 190). t Frothingham, Fig.
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