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Rome - Forum - Arch of Titus
The Arch of Titus commemorated Titus' death, chiefly to commemorate the capture of Jerusalem.

"On the coffered soffit of the arch and the wall faces below it are reliefs of the emperor and spoils from the Temple in Jerusalem. The outside faces of the piers are exemplary nineteenth-century restorations undertaken as far back as 1821 after demolition of the fortification in which the arch had been incorporated in the Middle Ages. They make good what had been destroyed, without any attempt at deceit."

--Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p243, 246.

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