Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 528
by the eagle.The serious beauty of the composition, enhanced bvtheadmirable relation of the group to the background, ison a par with the finest Greek reliefs. (Plate XCVI.) Altar in Capitol dedicated to Sol Serapis.—Withinthe same order of ideas comes the altar in theCapitoline Museum dedicated by… … I SEVERUS TO DIOCLETIAN 313 Fortunately the monument, which was found near S.Sebastiano in the Via Appia, can be dated, for thesame Orfitus appears again as augur on another in-scribed altai% found on the same spot (C.I.L , vi. 505 ;*now in the Villa Albani), as having celebrated theTauroboUa in…
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