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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2761923, member: 80804&quot;]I have also recently read that scholarship was tending to say the bridge on Trajan&#039;s coins was more likely to be the wooden bridge to the island in the Tiber. I&#039;m not too sure about that either, though.&nbsp; If the island formed one of the major support points of the bridge, it would seem like there should be two visible spans.&nbsp; I&#039;ve also read that this might be a representation of a new bridge which had been built at that time, just upstream of the old bridge, to augment/replace the old bridge which had central buttresses on the island. This would have been part of Trajan&#039;s civic building program to revamp the Forum, including Trajan&#039;s new forum (with pillar recounting the Dacian campains) basilica, baths and multi-level proto-stripmall built into a concave area in the side of the neighboring hill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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