What Roman triumphal arch commemorates the capture of Jerusalem in 70 AD?

The Roman triumphal arch commemorating the capture of Jerusalem in 70 AD is the Arch of Titus.

The arch stands on Rome’s Via Sacra, near the Roman Forum. Its reliefs show the triumph celebrated in 71 AD by Titus and his father, Vespasian, after Rome suppressed the Jewish revolt in Judaea and captured Jerusalem. The procession includes Roman soldiers carrying spoils from the Second Temple, most famously the Temple menorah.

Although it commemorates Titus’s victory, the monument was probably built in 81 AD by his brother and successor, Emperor Domitian, after Titus’s death. Its inscription honors Titus as a deified emperor, so the arch served both as a victory monument and as a statement about the Flavian dynasty.

A common mix-up is confusing the arch with the Temple Mount or with later Roman arches. The Arch of Titus is especially important because its sculpture provides one of the clearest surviving ancient depictions of objects taken from the Jerusalem Temple. A medieval fortification later incorporated the structure, and restorers repaired it in the early nineteenth century.