page_title: Tropaion
hierarchical_section_title: Tropaion
caption_attribution_description: This image is a photograph of the cast of Trajan's column located in the Victoria and Albert museum London.
context_page_description: A tropaion, whence English "trophy" is derived, is an ancient Greek and later Roman monument set up to commemorate a victory over one's foes. Typically this takes the shape of a tree, sometimes with a pair of arm-like branches upon which is hung the armour of a defeated and dead foe. The tropaion is then dedicated to a god in thanksgiving for the victory.
context_section_description: A tropaion (Greek: τρόπαιον, Latin: tropaeum), whence English "trophy" is derived, is an ancient Greek and later Roman monument set up to commemorate a victory over one's foes. Typically this takes the shape of a tree, sometimes with a pair of arm-like branches (or, in later times, a pair of stakes set crosswise) upon which is hung the armour of a defeated and dead foe. The tropaion is then dedicated to a god in thanksgiving for the victory.
caption: A Roman tropaeum from the Dacian Wars (Trajan's Column 113 AD, note the tree trunk with arm-like branches)
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