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ii2 The Trophy

(fig. 75)8 with their wealth of architectural and sculptural decoration.

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entablature (2'" high). From this rose a pyramid of steps topped by a colossal trophy.
The total height was some 461". The metopes of the rotunda showed garlanded bucrania
alternating with military or naval spoils. And on the east face of the plinth was an in-
scription (quoted in full by Plin. nat. hist. 3. 136 f.: fragments in Corp. inscr. Lat. v
no. 7817) flanked by Victories and Gallic trophies in relief.

1 G. G. Tocilesco—O. Benndorf—G. Niemann Das Monument von Adamklissi.
Tropaeum Trajani. Wien 1895 pp. 1—149 with pis. etc., G. Niemann ' Zur Basis des
Tropaeums von Adamklissi' in the Jahresh. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1898 i. 138—142 figs.
41—44, O. Benndorf ' Neues liber Adamklissi' ib. 1903 vi. 247—266 figs. 131—136 (these
archaeologists hold that the monument was built by Trajan to commemorate his victories
over the Dacians), A. Furtwangler ' Das Monument von Adamklissi unci die altesten
Darstellungen von Germanen ' in his Intermezzi Leipzig und Berlin 1896 pp. 49—77 with
figs., id. 'Zum Tropaion von Adamklissi' in the Sitzungsber, d. kais. bayr. Akad. d.