Dacians In Roman Sculpture And Where Can We See Them Today

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« The Goths [Getae] were not, therefore, so short of people to teach them philosophy. Wherefore the Goths [Getae] were always superior to the barbarians and almost equal to the Greeks. »
Iordanes, Getica, 39-40 ; Fontes II, p. 413, 417

"The dignified image of the Dacians was placed in the most prestigious place of the Roman world, in the heart of Rome, the Forum of Trajan. This is a very important and valuable fact for the history of the ancient representations of the Dacians in Roman art and for the history of the culture of Romania."

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Museo Nacional del Prado / Calle Ruiz de Alarcón 23, 28014 Madrid / museodelprado.es

Head of a Dacian (pileatus), nr 387 E, Museo del Prado

Place of discovery: unknown, there are no accurate data on the origin of the sculptures, but Cacciotti believes that it was part of the collection of the archaeologist and scholar Jose Nicolas de Azara, a collection that was received by Carlos IV.

Material: gray marble.

Dimensions: overall height 0.75 m, 0.44 m head

Conservation status: the head, otherwise intact, has a transverse crack.

Date: Late period of the reign of Trajan, Hadrian's reign beginning (an antique head on a modern torso of the XVII^th century).