Arch of Titus (monument)
You’re looking at the Arch of Titus—Arco di Tito in Italian—built around 81 AD on the Via Sacra, just south-east of the Roman Forum. It was commissioned by Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus, to celebrate Titus’s official deification (consecratio) and the victory over the Jewish rebellion in Judaea, alongside their father Vespasian. Inside, the arch shows panels of the triumphal procession—linked to the celebrations held in 71 AD after the fall of Jerusalem—and it includes one of the few near-contemporary depictions of artifacts associated with Herod’s Temple. One detail became unexpectedly long-lasting: the menorah carved here later served as a model for the menorah used as the emblem of the State of Israel. Even its influence travels. Since the 16th century, many later triumphal arches have borrowed its general design—and it even inspired Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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