Rock sculpture of Decebalus
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The rock sculpture of Decebalus is a colossal carving of the face of Decebalus, the last king of Dacia, who fought against the Roman emperors Domitian and Trajan.
Side view
Full frontal view
The only contemporary image of Decebalus, from Trajan's Column (AD 113); he is the man at right, with a knife to his throat. His face is narrower and his beard more pointed than is depicted on the rock sculpture.
Dacianism
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Dacianism is a Romanian term describing the tendency to ascribe, largely relying on questionable data and subjective interpretation, an idealised Dacian past to the country as a whole. While particula
Dacian-themed mural on a communist-era apartment block in Orăștie, exhibiting the idiosyncratic nationalist traits of Romanian communism.
A Dacian script or the work of an illiterate potter?