Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

112 The Trophy
(fig. 75)8 ^it^}^ their wealth of architectural and sculptural decoration.
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entablature (2"' high). From this rose a pyramid of steps topped by a colossal trophy.
The total height was some 46"'. The metopes of the rotunda showed garlanded bticrania
alternating with military or naval spoils. And on the east face of the plinth was an in-
scription (quoted in full by Plin. nat. hist. 3. 136 f.: fragments in Coi-p. inscr. Lat. v
no. 7817) flanked by Victories and Gallic trophies in relief.
^ G. G. Tocilesco— (). Benndorf—G. Niemann Das Monicineiii von Adaiiiklissi.
Tropaeum Trajani. Wien 1895 pp. i— 149 with pis. etc., G. Niemann ' Zur Basis des
Tropaeums von Adamklissi ' in iht Jahiesh. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1898 i. 138— 142 figs.
41—44, O. Benndorf ' Neues iiber Adamklissi ' ib. 1903 vi. 247—266 tigs. 131— 136 (these
archaeologists hold that the monument was built by Trajan to commemorate his victories
over the Dacians), A. Furtwangler ' Das Monument von Adamklissi und die altesten
Darstellungen von Germanen ' in his Intermezzi Leipzig und Berlin 1896 pp. 49— 77 with
figs., id. ' Zum Tropaion von Adamklissi ' in the Sitzungsber. d. kais. bayr. Akal. d.