The Trajan’s tablet was carved in the rock in the lower section of the Iron Gates gorge, 2.5km upstream from Tekija (eastern Serbia). The tablet contains an inscription on a background in the shape of tabula ansata, held by two winged genies. Below the inscription there is a kneeling figure, probably Danubius, with the tympanum above, decorated with rosettes and wing spread eagles and two dolphins on the sides.

The inscription marks the completion of a Danubian Roman military road (via militaris) that cuts through Upper Moesia on the way to Dacia, or better still, the completion of the last and most difficult stretch in the year 100.

The tablet was cut out in 1969 only to be moved and re-attached to a higher level as the water level of the Danube rose as the Djerdap I hydro-power plant was built.