#julioclaudian dynasty

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The Germanicus of Amelia

* Amelia Terni, Italy

* Civic Archaeological Museum, Amelia

Portale informazioni turistiche della città di Amelia: The Germanicus statue

Attribution:

Moreno Lupparelli, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Cenotaph of Augustus’ heir Gaius Caesar (d. 4 CE)

Source: Dosseman / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

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The senate and Roman people to the memory of Agrippina.

* issued by Caligula

* Palazzo Massimo, Rome

Rome, July 2015

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Antonia Minor and Drusus Maior

* Ara Pacis Augustae

* 14- 9 BCE

* Rome

Rome, July 2015

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Augustus

Roman, from Italy about 14 CE

British Museum

London, KJuly 2022

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Statue of youth on a horseback

* Rome, probably 1st century CE

* British Museum

London, July 2022

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Ptolemy of Mauretania (c. 9 BCE - 40 CE)

* Grandson of Cleopatra and Marcus Antonius.

* First cousin of Germanicus and Claudius.

* Last Roman Client king of Mauretania (20-40 CE)

* assassinated by order of Caligula

* Archaeological Museum Of Cherchell

source: PericlesofAthens, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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11 February, 55 CE - Britannicus is murdered

* obverse: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG F BRITA[NNICVS] ()

* reverse: Armoured Mars with a shield

Source: Source Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Creator Dirk Sonnenwald Copyright Notice CC BY-NC-SA

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Young Nero

* minted ca. 51 CE

* Obverse: NERO CLAVD CAES DRVSVS [GERM PRINC IVV]ENT ()

* Reverse: SACERD COOPT IN OMN CONL SVPRA NVM EX S C () [as an accomplished young man, Nero was also a flamen ;-) ]

* Berlin State Museums, Numismatic Collection

https://smb.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=158548

Source: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Creator Dirk Sonnenwald Copyright Notice CC BY-NC-SA

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13 October 54 CE - Nero became emperor

* obverse: NERO CLAVD DIVI F CAES AVG GERM IMP TR P COS (Nero Claudii Divi Filius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator Tribunicia Postestate Consul). Busts of Nero and Agrippina the Younger

* reverse: AGRIPP AVG DIVI CLAVD NERONIS CAES MATER -/ EX S C (Agrippina Augusta Divi Claudii Neronis Caesaris mater Ex Senatus Consultum). Divus Claudius and Divus Augustus in a chariot driven by four elephants.

* Rome, 54 or 55 CE (=Tr P "1")

* gold

* Berlin State Museums, Numismatic Collection

https://smb.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=145377

source: Source Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Creator Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke und Wiedemann) Copyright Notice CC BY-NC-SA

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10 October, 19 CE - Germanicus died at Antioch (aged 33 )

* Beziers, France

* between circa 14 CE and circa 23 CE

* marble

* Musée Saint-Raymond

source; Musée Saint-Raymond, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo by Pierre Selim

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Portrait of M. Claudius Marcellus (?, 42 BCE-23 BCE)

* son of Octavia Minor and Gaius Claudius Marcellus

* nephew and son-in-law of Augustus

* First member of imperial family, who was buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus. ("tombstone" of Marcellus)

* marble

* 1st century CE

* Taranto

Attribution: National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Giovanni Dall'Orto

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Agrippina the Younger

* 1st century CE

* Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn

source: Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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Drusus Minor (14 BCE - 23 CE)

* Sant’Antioco (island)

* Museo  Archeologico Nazionale, Cagliari

source: G.dallorto, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons