Image code: 18504

Arch of Titus. Detail

The Arch is single-arched, on a square base: the exterior is built of marble, the inner core of cement and the plinth of travertine. The Arch is finely decorated with engravings referring to religion, the emperor Titus and his enterprise: above the columns supporting the Arch rests an architrave with an engraving depicting a sacrifice, while the vault with coffered decoration depicts an eagle raising Titus to heaven. On the walls of the columns, to the south is depicted the procession as it passes through the triumphal gate with the sacred objects of Jewish ritual plundered from the Temple of Jerusalem (the silver trumpets calling the faithful to prayer, the seven-branched golden candelabrum), to the north the triumphant emperor on a quadriga.

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