The epigraphic evidence from the Forum of Trajan shows that this forum was the most important public venue for the honoric statues of senators in the city of Rome in the fourth and fth centuries A.D. These dedications celebrated the achievements of individual senators, and thereby helped to promote an image of a coherent senatorial order whose members were dened by their civil ofces, literary accomplishment, outstanding personal virtues, and the approbation of their peers and the emperor. In contrast, statuary honours in the Roman Forum continued to be largely restricted to emperors and, in the fth century, to the powerful generals who increasingly controlled imperial policy. This pattern in the distribution of statues suggests a basic differentiation in the use of the two most important representational spaces of late antique Rome.

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