Ara de Trajano


The Ara de Trajano is a Roman inscription made on a granite boulder located in Caldas das Taipas, Braga District, Portugal with an honorific inscription to Trajan, dated 103. It was classified as a Monumento Nacional by the Decreto of 16-06-1910, Diário do Governo, No. 136, of 23-06-1910.
It is also known as Lápide das Taipas, Ara de Nerva or Penedo da Moura.
The inscription is on one of the faces of a granite block cut into three faces, each of them approximately three meters high. The inscription reads:
IMP CAES NERVA/ TRAIANVS AVG, GER, DAC/ POT MAX, TRIB POT VII/ IMP IIII COS V, P P]
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