A detailed descritpion, with 16 images, of the exhibition "Traiano. Ai
confini dell'Impero" (Ancona, Mole Vanvitelliana - 19 ottobre 1998 - 17
gennaio 1999) is available on my site.

I insert an introduction in English language

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Ivan Boni
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Trajan. At the borders of the empire
The exhibition centres on the widening and consolidation of the borders of
the Empire under the government of Trajan, a personality already defined by
the ancient historiography as the "good prince", and on the Trajan age as a
period of acceleration of exchanges leading to the configuration of European
culture.
More than four hundred finds and works of art, coming from seventeen
European archaeological and Roman history museums, reconstruct the cultura
unity which Romans promoted in the conquered territories since the times of
the princedom of Trajan (98-117 a. C.).
The exhibition opens with a section dedicated to the figure of Trajan and
continues, according to a geographical-chronological principle, with the
description of his military exploits and of the figure of the princeps as
regards civic, religious and military life in the European limes
settlements. The archaeological finds show cultural and politica geography
of the boundary provinces of the Empire and point out some of the less known
aspects of the religious cults practised in the settlements located between
North Sea and Black Sea.
Some  historical  documents reconstruct everyday life with particular
reference to customs, to the practice of arts and crafts, to technological
development and to religious life.
Among the most interesting and suggestive pieces, there are some sculptures,
mostly marble busts of Trajan and his family, portraits,  glass  unguentary
vases, everyday objects, but also valuable jewel and a wonderful collection
of one hundred twenty valuable coins, never exhibited together before.
Moreover there are votive statuettes, funerary steles, military
certificates, moulds of Trajan's column and of the triumphal Adamklissi
monument, as well as the relief models of some triumphal arches, among which
the arch that Ancona dedicated to the emperor.
Reconstructions, cartographies, life-size reproductions of soldiers' armours
complete the archaeological journey which takes the visitor among the
expressions of the existing peripheral civilizations of the Roman Empire.
On this background the image of Trajan emerges, already represented in the
ancient world as a character at the borders of the myth.




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