CLST 341 Lecture 18: Lecture One Week 11
22 Nov 2017
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The forum of trajan was designed by apollodorus, a mathematician from damascus, syria. Besides the forum, trajan also financed a number of infrastructure projects, especially in italy, with roads, harbours, and aqueducts. He isn"t the first non-italian born emperor (claudius was the first); he was born in. Aqueduct, the aqua traiana, was completed in 109 ad. There is a milestone in orvieto that is a marker for that aqueduct. On the other side of italy, he built the port of ancona which looked after the adriatic shoreline. The closer of the two arches was put up by a pope in 1700s while the farther is trajan"s. The inscriptions were made by taking iron letters and hammering them in the building. They were taken down afterwards (imprints were left) if iron was needed. On either side of the arch are inscriptions to plotina augusta (wife, coniugi) and. Because of cos vi, this coin is dated to 112 ad.
