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Scenes of the spiral band running up the shaft

 p145  LIV. The emperor receives assurances of victory

The emperor, according to Dion Cassius, ascended the mountains, and followed Decebalus into his last retreat; and we see him in this composition standing on a rock, with his two general officers and surrounded by soldiers, giving accounts of the result of the last actions, and of another next to be described. The whole composition is well disposed, the emperor standing between two groups of men. Rocks are seen rising to the top of the spiral behind him, and forest and broken ground in front. Two  p146 soldiers hold up heads of men they have killed, in order to claim the imperial favour.

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