Maktar - Arch of Trajan

At the south end of the Forum in Maktar stands the magnificently preserved Arch of Trajan, erected in A.D. 116 in honor of the town's promotion to the status of municipium. An inscription dedicates it to "the Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus, the best of all Emperors, conqueror of the Germans, the Armenians and the Parthians, in his 21st year as a tribune". In Byzantine times the gateway was walled up and incorporated in the fortifications of the town.