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THE IRON GATES MUSEUM - ROMAN FORTRESS FROM DROBETA - THE TRAIAN BRIDGE RUINS.
19 MAY 2006
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The Iron Gates Museum. In front the Apollodorus of Damascus bust. |
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An old photo of the ancient Roman Path from Danube Gorge. |
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A graphic model of the Traian Bridge. |
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Traian inscription about the Danube navigation. |
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Traian inscription about the Roman Path. |
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Cassius Dio : " Trajan constructed over the Ister a stone bridge for which I cannot sufficiently admire him. Brilliant, indeed, as are his other achievements, yet this surpasses them. For it has twenty piers of squared stone one hundred and fifty feet in height above the foundations and sixty in width, and these, standing at a distance of one hundred and seventy feet from one another, are connected by arches. How, then, could one fail to be astonished at the expenditure made upon them, or at the way in which each of them was placed in a river so deep, in water so full of eddies, and on a bottom so muddy? .... |
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....For it was impossible, of course, to divert the stream anywhere. I have spoken of the width of the river; but the stream is not uniformly so narrow, since it covers in some places twice, and in others thrice as much ground, but the narrowest point and the one in that region best suited to building a bridge has the width named. Yet the very fact that river in its descent is here contracted from a great flood to such a narrow channel, after which it again expands into a greater flood, makes it all the more violent and deep, and this feature must be considered in estimating the difficulty of constructing the bridge. This, too, then, is one of the achievements that show the magnitude of Trajan's designs, though the bridge is of no use to us; for merely the piers are standing, affording no means of crossing, as if they had been erected for the sole purpose of demonstrating that there is nothing which human ingenuity cannot accomplish.... |
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....Trajan built the bridge because he feared that some time when the Ister was frozen over war might be made upon the Romans on the further side, and he wished to facilitate access to them by this means. Hadrian, on the contrary, was afraid that it might also make it easy for the barbarians, once they had overpowered the guard at the bridge, to cross into Moesia, and so he removed the superstructure". |
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The Traian Bridge Model. Aquila Nova Roma - Marcus Minucius Audens article about the Bridge. |
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Model of the Trajan Column - Iron Gates Museum. |
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The Dacians flags. |
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Fibules. |
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Statues |
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Jupiter Dolichenus. |
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Jupiter |
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Mercur |
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Magna Mater Altar from Drobeta. |
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Venus |
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Victoriae |
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Iulia Severa, Arria Carina and Iulius Probus at the ethnographic section of the Iron Gates Museum. |
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Ruins of the Drobeta Roman Fort. |
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Ruins of the Drobeta Roman Fort. |
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Iulius Sabinus at Drobeta. |
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Remains of Traian Bridge at Drobeta. |
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Danube and The Iron Gates Dam. |
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SPQR : Q. Iulius Probus - Legatus Militum Dacia. T. Iulius Sabinus - Propraetor Dacia |
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Iulius Probus |