The arch built for the Emperor Titus to commemorate his victory in Judea and destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE marks one possible location of the Summa Sacra Via. The south frieze shows the spoils from the temple of Jerusalem, including the menorah (seven-branched candelabrum), while the north frieze depicts Titus riding in a triumphal chariot with the goddess Roma leading the horses and a winged Victory crowning him with a laurel wreath.
The arch was seriously damaged during the middle ages, and it was taken down in 1822 and rebuilt; this eighteenth-century drawing by Piranesi shows that only the central portion of the arch was intact before the restoration.
You decide to walk around the Arch to glory in the power of Rome by looking at this symbol of military might and attempts to crush opposition. Although you are plan to continue your walk past the Arch towards the Forum, you can't resist a longer look. The power of Rome was mighty, but the poet Horace foresaw the finite limits of big monuments and temporal power.
Region 4 (Sacra Via)