Traian terracotta bust roman emperor

Traian terracotta bust roman emperor

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Marco Ulpius Nerva Traiano, terracotta bust.
(Italica, 18 September 53 - Selinunte in Cilicia, 8 August 117) was a Roman emperor, reigning from 98 to 117.

Faithful copy of an original kept at the Glyptothek in Munich.

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Height 25.98 in 66 cm
Width 15.75 in 40 cm
Depth 9.06 in 23 cm
Weight 17.64 lbs 8 Kg
Round base diameter Ø 7.87 in 20 cm
Manufacturing Toscana / from Tuscany
Material Terracotta
Museum where the Original is exhibited Glyptothek Monaco di Baviera - Munich

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Marco Ulpius Nerva Traianus (in Latin: Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus; in the epigraphs: IMPERATOR • CAESAR • DIVI • NERVAE • FILIVS • MARCVS • VLPIVS • NERVA • TRAIANVS • OPTIMVS • AVGVSTVS • FORTISSIMVS • PARVIC PRINCEPS • GERMVACS • GERMS ; Italica, 18 September 53 - Selinunte in Cilicia, 8 August 117) was a Roman emperor, reigning from 98 to 117.

Trajan was born in the province, in the city of Italica, originally founded by Italic colonists, in Hispania Bætica (present-day Andalusia, Spain). His Gens Ulpia came from Umbria, in particular from Todi, and remained centuries before the birth of Trajan in southern Hispania. [5] [6] [7] His father Marcus Ulpius Traianus, also born in Hispania, was a senator, and therefore Trajan was born into a senatorial family. [8] [9] Valent military and popular commander, he was adopted by Nerva in 97, succeeding him two years later.

Already exalted by contemporaries and remembered by ancient historians as Optimus princeps or the best among the Roman emperors, by many modern and expert historians he is considered, by virtue of his work and great skills as a general, administrator and politician, as one of the statesmen most complete and thrifty in history, and one of the best Roman emperors.

He had become an important general during the reign of the emperor Domitian, whose last years were marked by continuous persecutions and executions of Roman senators. In September 96, after the assassination of Domitian, an old senator without children, Nerva, ascended the throne, but immediately proved unpopular with the army. After a short and tumultuous year in power, the opposition of the Praetorian guard had weakened his power, so much so that he was forced to defend his role as princeps by adopting the most popular of the generals of the moment, Trajan, and appointing him his heir and successor. . Nerva died shortly after, at the end of January 98, leaving the empire to Trajan, without turmoil and opposition.

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