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illustratus · 4 months
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View of the Roman Forum with the Arch of Septimius Severus, and the remains of the Temple of Vespasian and Titus, and the Temple of Saturn.
by Arthur John Strutt
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lionofchaeronea · 4 months
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Aureus (diameter=20 mm; weight=7.02 g) minted by the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193-211 CE) in 204. The coin celebrates Septimius' previous campaign in 198 against the Parthian Empire (which had supported Pescennius Niger, a rival claimant to the Roman throne), culminating in the sack of the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon and the annexation of northern Mesopotamia. (This campaign was to have dire consequences for Rome later on: the weakened Parthians were succeeded by the far stronger Sassanian dynasty, which would threaten the Roman/Byzantine East until the Arab conquests of the seventh century.) The obverse depicts the bust of Septimius, who stresses his piety with the cognomen PIUS and the title P(ONTIFEX) M(AXIMUS). On the reverse is the figure of Victory, holding a laurel wreath and palm frond and surrounded by the legend VICTORIA PARTHICA MAXIMA. This aureus is the only one of its kind known to exist and may have been part of a limited issue, perhaps connected to the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) that Septimius held in 204 to celebrate the anniversary of Rome's founding. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com
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homerstroystory · 2 years
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Gold bust of Emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193-211 CE), discovered in Plotinopolis, Greece.
There are only two Roman period gold busts in the world: this, and a modified bust in Switzerland (not open to the public). The above bust was used to top a standard bearer.
On display at the Archaeological Museum in Komotini, Greece.
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Banned from using the time machine because I took Cato-"Carthage Must Be Destroyed and Rome Must Never Have a King"-the Elder 350 years into the future and gave him a heart attack by introducing him to the Carthaginian emperor of Rome
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stardustmanblue · 2 months
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ancientorigins · 10 months
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Priceless monumental Roman sculptures have been unearthed in Carlisle, further strengthening the city’s connection to the Roman era. Evidence indicates these stone heads depict Septimius Severus and his queen.
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hogs-in-your-house · 4 months
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septimius severus from a wip of mine
really proud of how it’s going so far but he was so HARD to DRAW… im trying to mimic the style on the severan tondo somewhat and idk how that’s going tbh
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romegreeceart · 2 years
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Septimius Severus
3rd century CE
British Museum
London, July 2022
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lightdancer1 · 10 months
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Septimius Severus is another of those Emperors whose reign marked a major shift in Roman history and culture:
The Emperor Septimius Severus marked a turning point in the history of the Roman Empire. Both the first African Emperor, the first provincial Emperor, and the man whose dynasty ultimately unleashed the forces that turned into the Crisis of the Third Century, his reign was a point where long-standing forces of change hit home at their hardest.
He, like Vespasian and Diocletian (and Constantine I and Theodosius after him) seized power by Tacitus's 'secret of empire', that Emperors were made by Legions and asserting that claim. In that process he, like Nero and his predecessor Commodus spent little time patting the Senators on the fanny and telling them what wonderful people they were and that the special boys deserved special treats, for which accordingly he was not entirely popular among their ranks. Amplified by the very connected habit of unleashing purges whenever it suited his temper, which was often.
Like Hadrian he was an Emperor who spent much of his time away from Rome in the Provinces, hence his death in Eboracum, known now as York, in Britain, in the midst of an effort to conquer all of what's now Scotland and was then Caledonia. Caledonians, like Picts, lived in Scotland but they are not the cultural direct-line ancestors of modern Scots as they spoke Brittonic languages, the kind that would evolve into Welsh and Cornish, and not Gaelic.
Britain, like other provinces, gave Rome no shortage of trouble and the scale of the wars was sufficient to draw a considerable portion of the Empire's strength. Severus's death in turn would unleash the tumultuous impact of his own dynasty, the ascension of Rome's sole Black Emperor, and the onset of the Military Anarchy with the overthrow of his descendant Severus Alexander.
This was neither the fault nor the vision nor the will of Severus himself, but it was ultimately the same pattern as with the Mughal state. Where power rested in Legions, ultimately, a set of clashes with multiple aspirants equally competent or incompetent at some point was a fixed point in an empire that spanned the Mediterranean. From this all else followed with the fall of the Empire, with it the fall was fixed independent of all the other factors. The East survived by replacing the system with a proto-Muscovite divine autocracy and a purely dynastic system.
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readyforevolution · 11 months
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smartbitches · 4 months
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Someday, someone might ask you what your roman empire is.
You can say that Grant Tyrell used the Internet and modern technology to take a vacation to 200AD Rome because his ancestor was some warrior emporer named Septimius.
But the power Grant seeks is held by SOME WOMAN OMG. Can you believe.
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ammg-old2 · 1 year
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Septimius Severus ruled ancient Rome as emperor for nearly two decades, and a seven-foot-tall statue that researchers say depicts him presided over the Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the past 12 years.
But now the headless bronze statue, dating to 225 A.D. and valued at $25 million, is gone, one of the latest antiquities to be seized from the museum, whose collection has been repeatedly cited in recent months as containing looted artifacts.
The investigators who seized the statue said it had been stolen from Bubon, an archaeological site in southwest Turkey, in the 1960s. Another 17 items at the museum were characterized as looted artifacts in seizure actions filed by the Manhattan district attorney’s office over the past three months.
Those filings are part of a larger surge of warrants and seizure orders issued recently by the prosecutors to recover illicitly obtained antiquities from museums, galleries, auction houses and collectors across the United States, according to court records.
In addition to the Met, the authorities seized items from the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum and the Fordham University Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art, according to court records.
The statue of the emperor, which was on loan to the Met from a Swiss lender, is one of three items from the museum that are being returned to Turkey. Researchers said the statue was most likely one of a group of figures originally set up in a shrine in Bubon where members of the imperial family were worshiped during the period when Rome ruled the area.
“It was a shrine to the imperial cult,” said Elizabeth Marlowe, director of the museum studies program at Colgate University, who has tracked the statue’s history.
The bronze is important, in part, she said, because it is so rare. “This was a repository of extraordinary sculptures,” she said. “Most bronze statues were melted down in antiquity. But this site was somehow neglected. They were buried. They survived.”
History depicts Septimius Severus, who ruled from 193 to 211 A.D., as a wily African-born Roman general who outmaneuvered four rivals to assume the emperor’s seat and establish a new imperial dynasty. When it put the statue on display in the museum’s Roman Court in 2011, the Met identified the bronze as “Statue of a Male Nude Figure” without specifying the figure’s identity, and in a wall label said there was reason to question whether it was a depiction of the emperor. But researchers and the district attorney’s office have identified it as a statue of Septimius Severus.
A second antiquity that will be returned to Turkey from the Met is a bronze head of Caracalla, Severus’s eldest son, that is thought to have been made between 211 and 217 A.D. and is valued at $1.25 million. Caracalla succeeded Severus as emperor and had a reputation as a tyrant who used fear and bloodshed to rule. Researchers said they believe the bronze head was also looted from Bubon.
Recovering items stolen from Bubon and other sites has been a major goal of Turkish officials for decades. In the 1960s, investigators said, statues were dug up by local farmers and sold, rather than reported to the Turkish government as was required by a 1906 law and other statutes.
“The looting back then was done as a commercial enterprise for the villagers,” said Matthew Bogdanos, the chief of the district attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit.
He said that farmers had used tractors to dig at the site, which had been largely buried under soil and debris from centuries of earthquakes and landscape changes.
The prosecutors were aided in their inquiry by investigators from U.S. Homeland Security Investigations and Turkish authorities.
The return of antiquities “sends a clear and strong message to all smugglers, dealers and collectors that illegal purchase, possession and sale of cultural artifacts will have consequences,” Reyhan Ozgur, Turkey’s consul general in New York, said at a ceremony last week when 12 items, valued at $33 million, were given back to Turkish officials.
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lionofchaeronea · 1 year
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The so-called Severan Tondo. The Roman emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193-211 CE) and his wife Julia Domna are shown with their sons Caracalla (L. Septimius Bassianus) and Geta. Geta's face has been destroyed as part of the damnatio memoriae he underwent following his assassination by Caracalla. Tempera on panel, artist unknown; ca. 200 CE. Now in the Altes Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 4.0.
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coffeenewstom · 1 year
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Mein nächste Ziel führt einen grünen Lindwurm im Wappen. Der soll nämlich dort sein Unwesen getrieben haben und dort zahlreiche Schafe, Kälber und Jungfrauen verschlungen haben. Nach dem Mahle nahm er im nahen See ein Bad, trank sich am Seewasser satt und verzog sich auf seine Insel. Der Kaiser lobte eine große Belohnung für denjenigen aus, der dem Untier der Gar ausmachen könnte: zum Ritter, gar…
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blueiskewl · 2 months
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Ancient Monumental Marble Map of Rome on Display After 100 Years
A marble map of ancient Rome, that hasn't been put on public view for almost 100 years, is getting its very own museum within sight of the Colosseum.
The Museum of the Forma Urbis, enclosed within a new archaeological park on one of Rome's famous seven hills opens on Friday -- the latest offering from a city that is eager to broaden its attraction for growing hordes of tourists, according to Reuters.
"This is a beautiful day. We are opening an archaeological park in an extraordinary part of the city and a new museum showcasing a masterpiece which has not been visible for about a century," said Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri.
"We want a city where the museums and the streets are linked, and where people, while walking around, can fully appreciate and enjoy the beauty, but also better understand how our city has been transformed."
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The Forma Urbis was a monumental, highly detailed marble map of ancient Rome carved during the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus between 203 and 211 AD, engraved onto 150 separate slabs and measuring 18 by 13 metres (60 by 43 feet).
It was displayed on a wall in the ancient city, but over the centuries it gradually disintegrated, with locals using some slabs for new buildings.
During excavations in 1562, fragments were recovered and scholars estimate around 10% of the whole has survived, including sections showing the Colosseum and Circus Maximus, as well as floor plans of baths, temples and private houses.
The huge carving has proved a valuable resource for understanding the layout of ancient Rome, but all the remaining pieces have not been shown together since 1924.
In its new, innovative setting, the fragments have been laid out on a reproduction of a famous map of Rome created in the 18th century by the surveyor Giovanni Battista Nolli, who is credited with making the first accurate street plan of Rome.
The marble chunks lie on top of the Nolli map, showing their relation to the developing Renaissance city.
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Outside the museum, in the open-air park on the side of the Caelian Hill, archaeologists have out laid out walkways lined with ancient Roman grave markers and marble columns found in excavations around the city in recent decades.
"The Caelian Hill, one of the seven hills of ancient Rome, has remained in the shadows, unknown and inaccessible for a very long time. Today, we are finally giving it back to the city," said Claudio Parisi Presicce, who oversees Rome's cultural heritage.
"The hill has a special importance because it is what unites the monumental area of the Imperial Forums, the Roman forum, the Colosseum and the area of the Appia Antica," he said.
The 5-million-euro ($5.5 million) project is part of a broader refurbishment of Rome, which has seen a tourism boom since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and is expected to be submerged by visitors in the 2025 Roman Catholic Holy Year.
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artschoolglasses · 3 months
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The Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome, Luigi Bazzani, 1900
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