#Antoninus Pius

[ancientprettythings]

What remains of the Temple of Antoninus Pius and Faustina.

Forum Romanum, Rome.

#rome #forum romanum #antoninus pius #faustina the elder #temple #ancient architecture #ancient temple #original photography #ancientprettythings

[maps-and-elvis-and-zelda-n-shit]

New shiny things give me something similar to joy

#numismatics #coins #roman empire #ancient rome #elagabalus #heliogabalus #antoninus pius #hadrian #volusian #nero #domitian #ancient #ancient history #shiny #crow behavior

[ancientstuff]

What an ill-fated venture that was, trying to conquer the Picts.

#archaeology #Roman Scotland #ancient Rome #Roman fort #Antoninus Pius

[tmblrfuckingsucksass]

Roman Aureus of Emperor Antoninus Pius (2nd century CE)

#roman history #roman empire #gold #aureus #gold coin #high relief #numismatics #antoninus pius #roman emperor #hail caesar #2nd century ce #concordia #goddess of harmony #roman mythology #classical antiquity #western civilization

[hogs-in-your-house]

people on the internet constantly fellating marcus aurelius for saying the most obvious shit. if that man had said “don’t kill yourself that shit make you die” sigma male dudebros on reddit would be pissing themselves over how profound it is

#same thing with trajan and hadrian #just saying if you ignore antoninus pius and nerva im throwing a brick through your window /nsrs #there were FIVE good emperors not THREE RAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH

[blueiskewl]

A Roman Marble Portrait Bust of Emperor Antoninus Pius circa A.D. 140

Monumental in size, the emperor with his head turned to his left, his mature face with thoughtful countenance, full beard and moustache, deep-set eyes with incised irises and dotted pupils, and incised eyebrows, his thick hair radiating from the crown in long wavy locks and massed in rich deeply drilled and unruly voluted curls around the forehead and temples, and wearing a tunic, cuirass, and paludamentum fastened with a circular brooch on the right shoulder, the fringed hem of the cloak falling in zigzag folds from the left shoulder, the entire bust and its socle carved in one piece.

Height 97 cm.

Antoninus Pius (19 September 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.

Born into a senatorial family, Antoninus held various offices during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. He married Hadrian's niece Faustina, and Hadrian adopted him as his son and successor shortly before his death. Antoninus acquired the cognomen Pius after his accession to the throne, either because he compelled the Senate to deify his adoptive father, or because he had saved senators sentenced to death by Hadrian in his later years. His reign is notable for the peaceful state of the Empire, with no major revolts or military incursions during this time. A successful military campaign in southern Scotland early in his reign resulted in the construction of the Antonine Wall.

Antoninus was an effective administrator, leaving his successors a large surplus in the treasury, expanding free access to drinking water throughout the Empire, encouraging legal conformity, and facilitating the enfranchisement of freed slaves. He died of illness in 161 and was succeeded by his adopted sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as co-emperors.

#A Roman Marble Portrait Bust of Emperor Antoninus Pius A.D. 140 #Emperor Antoninus Pius #marble #marble bust #marble statue #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient rome #roman empire #roman emperor #roman history #roman art

[lionlimb]

watching some lecture about the decline and fall of the roman empire (as in, the work of history by edward gibbon, not just the historical topic) and gibbon just got quoted as calling claudius "feeble". when it comes to the roman empire, my memory is a total sieve, and the only thing that I can ever remember is my middle-school happiness while reading i, claudius by robert graves so i have to be like wtf gibbon don't say that about my blorbo

#and then i read claudius the god in high school and didnt like it as much so maybe claudius isnt my blorbo after all #livia girlbossed too hard and tiberius was too pathetic and then too disgusting soon afterward... #theonly other roman emperor i can recall is antoninus pius for sending diplomats to china. #alternate history wherein imperial rome and imperial china were actively in contact ... imagine that slay ...

[zazzander]

Octavian Family Headcanons (Updated)

Almost entirely dependant on the fact that Julia, Claudia and Octavian are all like big-wig historial Roman names and that they are all legacies.

Please ignore the fact that all these people are beautiful, this is not something I can change. Also, all the "Canes" are technically "Valerius Canus" or "Valeria Cana" but I didn't have the room to fit their entire names in, so they get the short versions.

In true Roman fashion, the first-born is usually named after a parent. Which is why you get Julius > Julia > Julia. And Claudius > Claudia.

The Canes of Julius' generation were originally very rich (owing to their Mercury heritage) but not very prestigious. They were typically members of the Fourth. Julius married Lucina, however, a member of the very prestigious Castellan families - and tradition members of the First Cohort. For this reason, all of Octavian's siblings are members of the First.

#octavian headcanon #octavian hoo #octavian pjo #all the canes are named after emperors #plus julius caesar #adrian = hadrian #marcia = marcus aurelius #antonina = Antoninus Pius

[shcherbatskya]

Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius would be a beautiful name for a baby girl

#that’s antoninus pius btw. #samael speaks #rome posting

[suetravelblog]

Roman Theater, Souks, Eid al-Fitr Amman Jordan

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#Amman Citadel #Amman Farmers Market #Bedouin Craftsman #Bedouin Tents #Egyptian Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic Dynasty #Eid al-Fitr Festival of Breaking the Fast #I&039;tikaf #Jabal Al-Jofah #Jordan Folklore Museum #Jordanian Museum of Popular Traditions #Nour al Barakah #Philadelphia Capital of the Roman Empire #Ptolemy Philadelphus #Ramadan #Roman Amphitheater Amman #Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius #Roman Triumvir Mark Antony #Souk el-Khodra #Souk el-Sagha #Souk Jara #Souk Mango

[lionofchaeronea]

Mummy portrait (wax encaustic on sycamore wood) of a girl, from the Fayum region of Egypt. Artist unknown; ca. 120-150 CE (reign of Hadrian or Antoninus Pius). Now in the Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.

#history #ancient history #Ancient Egypt #Roman Empire #Roman Egypt #art #art history #ancient art #Roman art #Egyptian art #Romano-Egyptian art #mummy portrait #encaustic painting #Liebieghaus

[memories-of-ancients]

Aureus of Emperor Antoninus Pius, Roman, circa 147-148 AD

from The Yale University Art Gallery

#history #antiquities #art #ancient history #ancient art #ancient rome

[lovelyangryheart]

Emperor Antoninus Pius (Roman 86-161 CE) National Roman Museum of Palazzo Massimo, Rome

#male art

[thesilicontribesman]

The Lanchester Roman Diploma

Found by a metal detectorist near Lanchester, Co. Durham, this is the first complete Roman Fleet Diploma to be discovered in the country and reveals the identity of one of Britain's first named sailors.

In the Roman Empire, there were citizens and non-citizens. Being a citizen gave you social and legal advantages. These included the right to own property, not pay some taxes and the right to have a lawful marriage. Most people in Britain at this time were not citizens. One way to become a citizen was to serve in the Roman army for 25 years, or the navy for 26 years. A diploma was the document that proved you had completed military service and could call yourself a Roman citizen.

The Lanchester Diploma was issued by the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161 CE) to Veluotigernus, a Briton from Lanchester, County Durham, in around 150 CE. To earn his diploma, Veluotigernus had served in Classis Germanica, the Roman navy in Germany. We know his unit was based around Cologne, and that their main duties at this time were patrolling and logistics rather than combat.

It is unusual to be able to identify a local person from this period by name. Veluotigernus' British name ended with '-tigernus', which means 'king or 'master' This suggests that Veluotigernus was from a high-status local family. When he was honourably discharged from the navy, his name, according to the diploma became Titus Aelius Veluotigernus - illustrating that he, like many others, had embraced Roman culture. He is the second oldest known sailor in the country, and one of the few Britons we know to have served in the German fleet.

The diploma is made of a copper alloy. It consisted of two inscribed rectangular bronze plates,like pages in a book. The inside pages contained the complete text, whilst the outside had a shortened version, along with a list of seven witnesses. Each diploma was checked and then sealed to create a single document. It is very unusual to find a complete diploma.

Most diplomas were broken up, and the pieces passed to the recipient's children, allowing each of them to claim Roman citizenship. It is unclear what prompted Veluotigernus to bury the diploma rather than distributing the pieces amongst his close family.

The Museum of Archaeology, Durham University

#roman #diploma #roman fleet #sailor #lanchester diploma #archaeology #relic #artefact #text #metalwork #service #roman army #roman sailor #roman empire #romans

[ancientcharm]

Plinth in marble with the personification of a Roman Province.

Photography by Egisto Sani (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

The plinth represents a female figure dressing a long tunic under a chiton and an heavy mantle. Her lowered crossed arms, the left turned head and the sad gaze hint the idea of a captive. For this reason had been proposed to identify this woman with the Province of Gaul or Germania. The plinths were located in the Hadrianeum, the votive temple built by Antoninus Pius in honour of his predecessor, the Divus Adrianus (Divine Hadrian). Rome, Musei Capitolini. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Cortile.

#ancient rome #archaeology #roman art #roman empire

[blueiskewl]

Getty to Acquire Ancient Portrait Bust of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius

First documented in 1851, the bust was previously unknown to scholars or the public.

The J. Paul Getty Museum is set to acquire an over-life-size ancient Roman marble bust of the emperor Antoninus Pius (ruled AD 138–161).

The work was purchased at auction in December; its final acquisition is subject to an export license being granted by the Arts Council England.

A prime example of Antoninus Pius’s main portrait type, the bust was created sometime after he ascended the throne in AD 138. With minor variations, this portrait type remained the emperor’s official image throughout his reign until AD 161. Carved from a single block of fine-grained white marble, the bust shows the emperor as a mature man with distinct facial features, a full, neatly trimmed beard, and thick curly hair. He wears a tunic, a cuirass (body armor), and a fringed paludamentum (a general’s cloak) folded in half and pinned at his right shoulder. “This exquisitely sculpted and remarkably preserved portrait ranks among the finest of more than 100 versions of Antoninus’s image that have survived from antiquity,” says Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle Director of the Getty Museum. “The bust adds a new highlight to the series of high-quality imperial portraits at the Getty Villa, including the full-length statue of Antoninus’ wife Faustina the Elder, and the busts of Augustus, Germanicus, Caligula, and Commodus.”

Born in Lanuvium to a family that had migrated to Italy from Nemausus in southern Gaul (today’s Nîmes in France), Antoninus was not groomed to become emperor. At the advanced age of 51, following a career as governor of the province of Asia and as Roman senator, he was adopted by Emperor Hadrian to be his successor. Antoninus’ long and exceptionally peaceful reign brought great prosperity to the Roman Empire, and the economy, culture, and artistic production flourished. The emperor started the dynasty of the Antonines, which lasted for more than two generations and ended with the death of Commodus in AD 192.

“Many objects in our collection were made in the Antonine period, as it is known today, including portraits, mythological sculptures, sarcophagi, and numerous other works,” says Jens Daehner, associate curator of antiquities at the Getty Museum. “The bust of Antoninus provides a firmly dated visual reference for what characterized Roman aesthetics during that period. On display in our galleries, the bust will convey to visitors how, for example, Antonine sculptors carved drapery folds, used drills to give texture to hair, or incised the eyes of their sitters.”

The marble bust was acquired in 1851 in Naples, Italy, by Robert Martin Berkeley (1823–1897), who brought it to his estate at Spetchley Park, Worcestershire, in England. It remained there with his heirs until it was offered at auction late last year at Sotheby’s, London. Although documented in the estate’s archive, the bust was previously unknown to the public or scholars. Once acquired, the bust of Antoninus Pius will go on display in the Getty Villa’s Later Roman Sculpture gallery with its selection of other Antonine period portraits.

#Getty to Acquire Ancient Portrait Bust of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius #portrait bust #marble bust #marble sculpture #ancient artifacts #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient rome #roman history #roman empire #roman art #emperor antoninus pius