Print from steel engraving titled Arc de Trajan a Ancone, published in a volume of L'Univers Pittoresque, Paris, approx. page size 21 x 13 cm, approx. image size 12.5 x 9 cm, nice hand coloring.

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Arch of Trajan, Ancona

The arch is built of marble and stands 18.5 m high. It was erected in 114/115 as an entrance to the causeway atop the harbour wall in honour of Trajan's creation of the harbour there. Most of its original bronze enrichments have disappeared. It stands on a high podium approached by a wide flight of steps. The archway, only 3 m wide, is flanked by pairs of fluted Corinthian columns on pedestals. An attic bears inscriptions. The format is that of the Arch of Titus in Rome, but made taller, so that the bronze figures surmounting it, of Trajan, his wife Plotina and sister Marciana, would be a landmark for ships approaching Rome's greatest Adriatic port.