Cast of Trajan's Column Scene XXXVIII
Roman auxiliaries attack Dacians during a night raid. The personification of Night, or "Nyx," is portrayed on the upper left. The auxiliaries include club-wielding allies. The clean-shaven Dacians in the middle and the top may be Roman deserters (Coarelli 2000: 83). Wagons loaded with goods stolen from the Romans frame the top middle of the scene. Defeated Dacians fall in the foreground, including a Dacian who is trying to remove an arrow from his shoulder.
Romanian National History Musuem.
Cast of Trajan's Column Scene XXXVIII
Roman auxiliaries attack Dacians during a night raid. The personification of Night, or "Nyx," is portrayed on the upper left. The auxiliaries include club-wielding allies. The clean-shaven Dacians in the middle and the top may be Roman deserters (Coarelli 2000: 83). Wagons loaded with goods stolen from the Romans frame the top middle of the scene. Defeated Dacians fall in the foreground, including a Dacian who is trying to remove an arrow from his shoulder.
Romanian National History Musuem.