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Set on the highest point of the Sacred Way as it climbs out of the Roman Forum toward the Palatine Hill, the Arch of Titus is the oldest surviving honorific arch in Rome. Erected in 81 AD by the emperor Domitian to commemorate his recently deceased older brother Titus and the suppression of the Jewish revolt in 70 AD, the arch is single-bayed and decorated with some of the finest sculptural reliefs to survive from the early empire. The two great panels on the inner walls of the arch are the mos...