10 The sacrificant wears the toga capite velato over a laurel wreath traits shared on the other remains of the monument only by Augustus in the south frieze.
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only: K. Hanell "Das Opfer des Augustus an der Ara Pacis
Jan 1 1994 18 Ara Pacis Augustae
Age of Augustus (Ann Arbor 1988). On the restorations see most recently La Rocca. 2 For the importance of the relief
4; and Richard Billows "The Religious. Procession of the Ara Pacis Augustae: Augustus' Supplicatio in 13 B.C.
Augustus' wife; however one cannot affirm in all certainty that the dedication of the Ara Pacis Augustae ('The Altar of the Augustan Peace')was done on pur
The monumentalization of Augustus's crematorium in the Campus Martius was surely an formed by the Ara Pacis and the obelisk of the so-called Horologium.
sented by the relief of the Ara Pacis Augustae variously interpreted commemorate Augustus
Oct 4 2000 of Augustus was reproduced on the external wall of the Ara Pacis pavilion facing the. Mausoleum
The Ara Pacis Augustae ( Latin, "Altar of Augustan Peace"; commonly shortened to Ara Pacis) is an altar in Rome dedicated to Pax Romana [1]. The monument was commissioned by the Roman Senate on July 4, 13 BC to honour the return of Augustus to Rome after three years in Hispania and Gaul [1] [2] and consecrated on January 30, 9 BC. [3]
Plan of the Ara Pacis. North is at the left The monument consists of a traditional open-air altar at its centre surrounded by precinct walls which are pierced on the eastern and western ends (so called today because of the modern layout) by openings and elaborately and finely sculpted entirely in Luna marble .
Tellus (or Pax) Panel, Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace) 9 B.C.E. (Ara Pacis Museum, Rome) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The better preserved panel of the east wall depicts a seated female figure (above) who has been variously interpreted as Tellus (tthe Earth), Italia (Italy), Pax (Peace), as well as Venus.
The ceremony took place in the summer of 13 BC, but not necessarily on 4 July, when the Senate voted to build the Ara Pacis. The north wall has about 46 extant or partially extant figures. The first two foreground figures are lictors, carrying fasces (bundles of rods symbolizing Roman authority). [22]