Trajan S Forum Marble

However undoubtedly its most impressive feature is the 190 meter long decorative frieze that winds around the column 23 times.

Trajan s forum marble.

It was essentially the first shopping mall with over 150 public stalls and offices. Trajan s forum with trajan s market in the background. 3 7 meters in width and is made from 20 marble drums which each weigh 32 tons. Unlike the open square and spacious forum trajan s market was a dense multi storied structure set up for public trading.

The three story eastern market known as trajan s market buttressed the excavated edge of the quirinal hill. A coin shows the façade divided into three sections. The marble column is of the roman doric order and it measures 125 feet 38 metres high together with the pedestal or base which contains a chamber that served as trajan s tomb. Trajan s forum stood as a huge marble military camp in the heart of the city.

A high relief frieze ran along the attic perhaps the same panels that were reused to decorate the arch of constantine. The basilica was the largest ever built in rome 170 meters long. The open space of the forum measured about 300 feet by 380 feet and was paved entirely in carrara marble. Trajan s column monument that was erected in 106 113 ce by the roman emperor trajan and survives intact in the ruins of trajan s forum in rome.