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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;singig, post: 4552220, member: 93672&quot;]I found some others representations of the dacian Draco in roman sculpture. </p><p>Parts of the text are from wikipedia.org</p><p><br /></p><p>Trophy relief from the Hadrianeum , the Temple of Hadrian, dedicated to the deified emperor Hadrian on the Campus Martius in Rome,&nbsp; by his adoptive son and successor Antoninus Pius in 145 AD.&nbsp; Capitoline Museum.</p><p>This representation of Draco is more similar to what we see on Decius coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127089[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan&#039;s Column, scene of two trophies with captured arms each having four Draco.&nbsp; The scene is located somewhere in the middle of column.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127088[/ATTACH] </p><p>Plaster casts of the relief were taken in the 19th and 20th centuries. After a century of acid pollution, they are now more legible in some details than the original.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127090[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Arch of Galerius (Thessaloniki, Greece), battle scene showing roman soldiers holding the adopted Draco standard. The arch was built in 298 to 299 AD and dedicated in 303 AD to celebrate the victory of the tetrarch Galerius over the Sassanid Persians at the Battle of Satala and capture of their capital Ctesiphon in 298.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127091[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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