#vittoria di calvatone

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The Victory of Calvatone, a gilded bronze statue of the goddess of Victory, set up probably around 165 AD by local bigwig Marcus Satrius Maior in Bedriacum (today Calvatone) to celebrate Marcus Aurelius' and his co-emperor Lucius Verus' victory over the Parthians. Statue itself has an interesting modern history. It was discovered in 1836, sold to Germany where it was displayed in a museum and it subsequently disappeared at the end of the WWII. It was only recently "re-discovered" in St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum.