Trajan’s column

Library

inscription at the base

According to the website Eternally Cool, when expanding the abbreviations, the base of the column is inscribed with the following:

SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUSIMPERATORI CAESARI DIVI NERVAE FILIO NERVAETRAIANO AUGUSTO GERMANICO DACICO PONTIFICIMAXIMO TRIBUNICIA POTESTATE XVII IMPERATORI VI CONSULI VI PATRI PATRIAEAD DECLARANDUM QUANTAE ALTITUDINISMONS ET LOCUS TAN<TIS OPE>RIBUS SIT EGESTUS

Which translates to

The Senate and People of Rome. To the Divine Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, son of Nerva, Pontifex Maximus, invested with the Tribunican Power for the

17th time, Consul for the 6th time, Father of the Fatherland, to testify, this place and tower of such height was carried out.

plaster casts at the Victoria and Albert Museum

plaster casts at the Museum of Roman Civilization