Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . eria design, thedestroyed original triumphal arch built in Romein honor of Trajan a few years before, in about107 , as a memorial of the Conquest of Dacia,just before the building of the Forum of coins which portray this Dacian arch showyery plainly that it has free-standing columnssupporting a broken architrave. Its designerand the inventor of this type is likely to havebeen, therefore, Apollodorus of Damascus, thefamous architect and engineer of Trajan. Still,as this use of coin pictures may be considered aslightly uncertain form of proof,
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . eria design, thedestroyed original triumphal arch built in Romein honor of Trajan a few years before, in about107 , as a memorial of the Conquest of Dacia,just before the building of the Forum of coins which portray this Dacian arch showyery plainly that it has free-standing columnssupporting a broken architrave. Its designerand the inventor of this type is likely to havebeen, therefore, Apollodorus of Damascus, thefamous architect and engineer of Trajan. Still,as this use of coin pictures may be considered aslightly uncertain form of proof, the Asseriagate may be regarded as the earliest monumentalembodiment of the new design. How importantthe innovation was, all designers will giving greater play of light and shade, moreoverhang to the main entablature and heavybreaks in its continuity, it introduced an ele-ment of picturesqueness that was valuable andcould be extended to other designs. It is onlyone of several debts that Rome owes to .<»<*«»•« Spalato, Plan of Palace of Diocletian as restored by Adam Plate L . •Iox AND mdations L ROMAN CITIES * 305 But this gate is interesting for historical andmilitary, as well as architectural, reasons. Itbears on the question whether, in his second andprincipal Dacian w^ar, Trajan reached the Dan-ube by way of Dalmatia. This theory has beenso scorned bv several of those who have made along and careful study of Trajans Dacian wars,by authorities such as Cichorius and Furt-wangler, that I hesitated to support it. Butwhile I cannot here discuss the theories as to seaand land routes, I can indicate some of the rea-sons for supposing that Trajan actually carriedhis army to the Danube through central Dal-matia and its hinterland. We know^ that Trajans first war in 101 and102 was not one of conquest, but aimed atmaking of Dacia and the land across the Dan-ube, a client state under the general suzeraintyof Rome, a sort of T
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