Roman Emperor Trajan, 53-117 AD, tearing up his clothes for bandages for wounded centurions after the Battle of Tapae, Dacian War, 101 AD. He is surrounded by signifers with signums, musicians with horns, capsarii medics, etc. Trajan dechire ses vetemens pour servir a bander les plaies des blesses. Copperplate engraving by David Weis after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappes Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millots Abrege de lHistoire Romaine.
Roman Emperor Trajan, 53-117 AD, tearing up his clothes for bandages for wounded centurions after the Battle of Tapae, Dacian War, 101 AD. He is surrounded by signifers with signums, musicians with horns, capsarii medics, etc. Trajan dechire ses vetemens pour servir a bander les plaies des blesses. Copperplate engraving by David Weis after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappes Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millots Abrege de lHistoire Romaine.