london023 Statue believed to be of the Roman Emperor Trajan. A.D. 98 - 117 'Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus' Presented by the Tower Hill Improvement Trust at the request of the reverend P. B. Clayton, CH. MC. DD. Founder padre of TOC H. Trajan's Column in Rome commemorates Trajan's victory in his military campaigns in Dacia (modern day Romania and Moldavia). The wall in the background is part of the Roman city wall built in A.D. 200.