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Geto Dacian fertility Goddess dated 1000 BC, was discovered in present-day Adamclisi, Constanța County, Ancient Tomis, Romania.

#archaeohistories

December 18, 2024 at 4:48 AM

Roman Military Equipment

@equipmentroman.bsky.social

Finally, if you thought the #pilum was just for throwing, here it is being used in hand-to-hand combat on #Adamclisi metopes. Rules, it seems, were made for breaking. #ReliefWednesday

Legionary on Adamclisi Metope XXIV thrusts with a pilum held thumb forward into a Dacian. Image: Cristian Chirita (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Legionary standing on a cart on Adamclisi Metope XLIII thrusts down with a pilum held thumb backward into a Dacian below him. Image: Cristian Chirita (CC BY-SA 3.0).

February 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM

Jona Lendering

@jonalendering.bsky.social

Een paar weken geleden bezocht ik #Adamclisi in Roemenië: een gereconstrueerd Romeins overwinningsmonument, een oude stad, een museum, moderne ideologie en misschien het Roemeense antwoord op Katwijk-aan-Zee.

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April 17, 2026 at 6:08 AM

Roman Military Equipment

@equipmentroman.bsky.social

Vegetius conveys mixed messaging about whether stabbing (punctim) or chopping (caesim) with a #gladius were better, but the troops on the #Adamclisi monument are happily doing both. #ReliefWednesday

Metope XVII from the Tropaeum Traiani at Adamclisi depicting two Dacians, one wielding a two-handed falx, and a legionary with drawn sword, curved rectangular shield, helmet with cross-bars, a laminated arm guard, and scale armour. Image Christian Chirita (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Metope XX from the Tropaeum Traiani at Adamclisi depicting two Dacians, one armed with a two-handed falx, and a legionary with raised sword, curved rectangular shield, helmet with cross-bars, a laminated arm guard, and possible mail armour. Image Christian Chirita (CC BY-SA 3.0)

February 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM

Roman Military Equipment

@equipmentroman.bsky.social

And in the early 2nd century AD, everybody was still wearing the #gladius on the right hip ... weren't they?! #Adamclisi #ReliefWednesday

Two columns of citizen troops on Metope XLVI from Adamclisi, carrying curved rectangular shields and shouldered (and weighted) pila. Image: Cristian Chirita (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Metope XXXII from the Tropaeum Traiani at Adamclisi (now in Istanbul) with two standing Roman soldiers facing the viewer, each equipped with a curved rectangular shield and holding a pilum in the right hand. They wear the paenula over a tunic which reaches to just above the knee (no body armour is apparent), have caligae on their feet, but lack the knee-length breeches seen elsewhere on the metopes. Their shields and pila mark them out as citizen soldiers, probably legionaries (since their shield blazons do not include the scorpion motif usually associated with members of the Praetorian Guard). Unusually for the period, they wear their swords on the left hip. Image: G. Dall'Orto

February 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM

Tablilla de cera

@tablilladecera.bsky.social

Las metopas de Adamclisi son una fuente iconográfica que pasa desapercibida, pero es contemporánea a la sobrevalorada columna de Trajano y mucho más rigurosa.

Roman Military Equipment @equipmentroman.bsky.social · Feb 19

On #ReliefWednesday, let's consider some rule-breaking on the Tropaeum Traiani at #Adamclisi in the Dobruja (ROM). These metopes are weathered and damaged, but the way each legionary is holding his weighted #pilum by his side (thumb forward) rather than raised (thumb back) is plainly visible.

Two columns of citizen troops on Tropaeum Traiani metope 44, the furthest with standards and the nearest depicted carrying curved rectangular shields and weighted pila held in an underarm (thumb forward) grip. Image: Cristian Chirita (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Two columns of citizen troops on Tropaeum Traiani metope 43, the furthest with standards and the nearest depicted carrying curved rectangular shields and (probably) weighted pila held in an underarm (thumb forward) grip. Image: Cristian Chirita (CC BY-SA 3.0).

February 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM

Pontos Euxeinos

@spartokosalu.bsky.social

Online book
Roman trophy of Adamclisi / Tropaeum Traiani #Romania #Blacksea
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Le trophée romain d’Adamclisi

Florescu, Fl. B. (1973) : Adamclisi, Bucarest Cet album publie une courte description de ce monument triomphal romain situé en Dobroudja. Les illustrations en noir et blanc sont très nombreuse…

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November 11, 2024 at 3:20 PM

RoaminTheEmpire

@roamintheempire.bsky.social

For #ReliefWednesday, from Monday's visit to the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, one of the metopes depicting soldiers from the Tropaeum Traiani at Adamclisi in Romania. Dated to 98-117 CE.

🏺 AncientBlueSky #RomanArchaeology #Istanbul

July 10, 2024 at 4:38 AM

lydelle BLEAAAH!ster

@babyshoes4cash.com

had some beers last night and came home and was reading on my phone before bed, but I forgot about what, until seeing my browser pointed at a wiki page for Ancient Dacian Swords

text from wikipedia, transcript:
Development
(picture of a falx, a curved sword with the edge on the inside curve of the blade, and a handle roughly the length of the blade)
Falx, drawing based on the Adamclisi Monument
The two-handed falx is clearly related to the Thracian rhomphaia. It is a derivative of both the sword and the spear, having evolved from a [cuts off here]

June 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM

Roman Military Equipment

@equipmentroman.bsky.social

The one on the left (more info here: museum.wales/collections/...) has an inlay pattern on the sheath (volutes and hatching) very similar to some of the space-filler designs on (sword) scabbards depicted on the Adamclisi metopes. #VoluteMonday

Marching legionaries depicted on a metope from Adamclisi (ROM), with detail of a voluted pattern on a sword scabbard. Image: Cristian Chirita (CC BY-SA 3.0)

September 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM

Roman Military Equipment

@equipmentroman.bsky.social

Following the announcement of his death (t.co/euG9DNsrn3), we said farewell to Jon last Friday with anecdotes, laughter, music, and – of course – Trajan's Column played an important part.

JCNC's coffin (before it was occupied) showing Trajan and a companion from the Adamclisi metopes (Cristian Chirita CC BY 3.0). Image: H. Dodge

JCNC's coffin (before it was occupied) showing Piranesi's etching of Trajan's Column (PD). Image: H. Dodge

JCNC's coffin (before it was occupied) showing Piranesi's etching of Trajan's Column (PD), a panorama of the Forum Traiani (Grenouille vert CC BY 3.0), and Adamclisi metopes (Cristian Chirita CC BY 3.0). Image: H. Dodge

JCNC's coffin (before it was occupied) showing marching legionaries from the Adamclisi metopes (Cristian Chirita CC BY 3.0). Image: H. Dodge

August 1, 2024 at 6:50 AM

Roman Military Equipment

@equipmentroman.bsky.social

On #ReliefWednesday, let's consider some rule-breaking on the Tropaeum Traiani at #Adamclisi in the Dobruja (ROM). These metopes are weathered and damaged, but the way each legionary is holding his weighted #pilum by his side (thumb forward) rather than raised (thumb back) is plainly visible.

February 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM

Herbefol (aka Emmanuel Tollé)

@herbefol.com

... légionnaires sont arrivés au contact des paysans, ça a bien poutré, ils sont partis en déroute par paquet de mille et c'était enfin plié.
J'espère que la prochaine bataille, Adamclisi entre romains et daces, ne sera pas aussi pénible.

July 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM

Romanian News 🤖

@romanian-news.bsky.social

Turul cetăților în week-end: Noaptea muzeelor în satele din Constanța, pentru pasionații de istorie / Intrare gratuită pentru vizitatori, la Capidava, Adamclisi, Histria și Topalu

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September 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM

James Tymberlake

@boisdulac.bsky.social

We only went to the outside park - then on to Adamclisi monastery and further.

July 12, 2024 at 12:12 PM

Jon Hawke

@archaeohawke.bsky.social

#RomanFortThursday

Civitas Tropaensium was a Roman city situated in the #Roman province of Moesia. The city developed around the fort, colonised with Roman veterans of the Dacian Wars, and became a municipium. (See Alt.)
#Archaeology #History

After the Dacian Wars in 109 AD the Trophy of Trajan (Tropaeum Traiani) was built next to the altar to commemorate
the Roman Empire's victories over the Dacians. It gave its name to the later Roman fort probably built around 106, 1.4 km to the southwest.

The Battle of Adamclisi was a major clash fought nearby during Trajan's Dacian Wars in the winter of 101 to 102
between the Roman Empire and the Dacians resulting in a decisive Roman victory, though both sides suffered very heavy casualties. A monumental altar was built
nearby in 102 to commemorate the victory.

The city was destroyed by the Goths, but it was rebuilt
during Constantine the Great's rule with improved defensive walls. Civitas Tropaensium
survived until the Avars sacked it in 587 when the Avar Hagan, although he had concluded a peace with the Empire from which he received the sum of 100,000 gold coins in exchange for the obligation to refrain from attacks, violated the imperial territory
and conquered Tropaeum Traiani
"through a military action which gave him a lot of work, because the cities did not surrender easily". It then ceased to be an important city of Dobruja and was no longer mentioned for seven hundred years.

March 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM

Roman Military Equipment

@equipmentroman.bsky.social

It is interesting that the Dioscuri are depicted carrying lances underarm, which is unusual for Roman cavalry this early. Of course, the Adamclisi sculptors also liked to break with tradition.

Adamclisi Metope II in the site museum depicting a cavalryman carrying a spear underarm, with a baldric over his right shoulder, and hence his sword on his left hip. Image: Cristian Chirita (CC BY-SA 3.0).

August 21, 2026 at 7:47 AM

JonaLendering

@jonalendering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Een paar weken geleden bezocht ik #adamclisi in Roemenië: een gereconstrueerd Romeins overwinningsmonument, een oude stad, een museum, moderne ideologie en misschien het Roemeense antwoord op Katwijk-aan-Zee.

https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/04/17/adamclisi/

April 17, 2026 at 6:09 AM

Daniel Stroe

@argileye.bsky.social

Tropaeum Traiani at Adamclisi, Romania, before, during and after its (very liberal) reconstruction in the 1970s. Built in 109 to commemorate Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars, allegedly on the site of a battle fought in winter of 101-102. #RomanEmpire

December 28, 2024 at 5:58 PM

Lisa Kadonaga

@tapirtrouble.bsky.social

Here's an example from present-day Romania, near Adamclisi, which shows scenes from the Dacian war in the early 100s. The legionary has reinforcing crossbars on his helmet, and arm protection.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropaeu...