Statue of Trajan, Tower Hill - London, UK
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A statue of the Roman Emper Trajan is located at Tower Hill in London near the remnants of a Roman wall.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/16/2017
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According to Wikipedia the statue of Trajan late-eighteenth-century bronze sculpture He is wearing a tunic and holding a scroll in his left. His right hand is raised with his index finger pointing up.
A plaque the base is inscribed:
STATUE BELIEVED TO BE OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR TRAJAN
A.D. 98–117
IMPERATOR CAESAR NERVA TRAJANUS AUGUSTUS
PRESENTED BY THE TOWER HILL IMPROVEMENT TRUST AT THE
REQUEST OF THE REVEREND P.B. CLAYTON , CH.MC.DD.
FOUNDER PADRE OF TOC H.
However statue is is identical to a well documented statue of Trajan that both Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons identifies as:
"Trajan, "the Palladium", white marble statue at the Colosseum in Rome, late 1st century AD".
Wikipedia Link
Wikimedia Commons Link
The website Tourisn in Rome places a copy of the and identical bronze statue, with an inscription identifying the subject as being Trajan, on Via dei Fori Imperiali, in front of Trajan's Forum and Trajan's Market in Rome.
Tourism in Rome Website