Romfilatelia, the specialized company in issuing and trading philatelic items in Romania releases one issue of definitive postage stamps, which reproduces images from Trajan’s Column.
Trajan’s Forum is the largest and most beautiful work of the Roman architecture. This monumental complex was made of an Arch of Triumph, an Atrium (a square surrounded by colonnades, with Trajan’s equestrian statue in the middle), Basilica Ulpia, Trajan’s Column surrounded by a small yard, the Big Ulpia Library, preserved in two buildings, one on the right side (for the Latin literature) and the other one on the left side (for the Greek literature) of Trajan’s Column and Temple.
The Column was inaugurated in Rome in 113 and was designed, like the Danube bridge built previously, by the famous architect of the ancient world, Apolodor of Damascus. Having a height of almost 40 meters, the Column hosted, in the beginning, Trajan’s statue and funerary urn. The Column is garnished with a continuous roll made of bas-reliefs that wind around the 23 spirals column that displays scenes from the Daco-Roman wars’ history (101-102 and 105-106).
Trajan’s Column was made of four parts: the foundation, the pedestal, the column garnished with a Doric capital and the emperor’s statue, placed on the top.
Ancient authors are unanimous when expressing their admiration for Trajan’s Forum. Two centuries after it was finished. When the emperor Constantine the Great entered triumphantly in Rome, he was amazed by the dimensions and greatness of this inimitable masterpiece.
