English: Trajan's column memorializes and illustrates the Roman Emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia, more or less present-day Romania. The original column dates from AD 113, less than a decade after the Dacian Wars, and still stands in Trajan's forum in Rome. There are numerous excellent plaster casts of all or part of the column. As far as I know, the one in the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest, Romania is the only one where the casts have been arranged to let visitors get a reasonably close view of all of the reliefs and where (unlike the Museo della Civilta Romana in Rome) the base and capital are included. In the Bucharest display, the base and capital are each pieced together, but except for the with a few of the closest panels from the extreme top and bottom of the column, but otherwise the panels are displayed singly, allowing visitors to see the reliefs in a way that is impossible on the original column or most of the other cast replicas.
Panel 5: Roman Legionnaires crossing the Danube on a bridge of boats.