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Augustus, (63 B.C.-14 D.C.). First emperor of the Roman Empi

Augustus, (63 B.C.-14 D.C.). First emperor of the Roman Empire. Augustus of Prima Porta. White marble statue. 1st century. Detail of the breastplate carved in relief depicting the return of the Roman legionary eagles lost to Parthis by Mark Anthony (40s B.C.) and by Crassus (53 B.C.). Braccio Nuovo. Chiaramonti Museum. Vatican Museum. Vatican City

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Roman Landscape: The Tomb of Cecilia Metella (oil on panel)

XIR231290 Roman Landscape: The Tomb of Cecilia Metella (oil on panel) by Heusch, Jacob de (1657-1701); 31x53 cm; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France; (add.info.: Campagne Romaine, Le Tombeau de Caecilia Metella; sepulchre of wife of Crassus;); Dutch, out of copyright

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Augustan Architecture, Bridge, Classical, Mausoleum, Ruin, Ruins, Stream

The Via Appia (Appian Way), Rome, Italy, 1927. Artist: Eugen Poppel

The Via Appia (Appian Way), Rome, Italy, 1927. The tomb of Cecilia Metella is in the background. The Via Appia was a road built by the Romans that connected Rome with Brindisi on the Apulian coast. Cecilia Metella was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, who was Roman Consul in 69 BC. She was also the daughter-in-law of Triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus. Her husband, Marcus Licinius Crassus the Younger, built a mausoleum for her on a hill overlooking the Appian Way. From Italien in Bildern, by Eugen Poppel [August Scherl, Berlin, 1927]

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