Bust of Severus Alexander information

The Bust of Severus Alexander is a Roman marble sculpture of the emperor Severus Alexander aged around 18. Now in the Uffizi in Florence, it is 70 cm tall...

Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander (1 October 208 – 21/22 March 235), also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235. The last emperor...

the mother of Caracalla and Geta, and her nieces Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea, the mothers respectively of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander, and their...

was a member of the Severan dynasty of the Roman Empire who was the grandmother of emperors Elagabalus and Severus Alexander, elder sister of empress Julia...

GORDIANI AVG Obverse: Laureate and draped bust of Severus Alexander to right, legend IMP CAES M AVREL SEV ALEXANDER AVG. Reverse: The Amphitheatrum Flavianum...

of his second term as quaestor on the island of Sardinia. In 173, Severus' cousin Gaius Septimius Severus was appointed proconsul of the province of Africa...

creating a total of six rulers of the Empire. Galerius and Severus campaigned against them in Italy. Severus was killed under command of Maxentius on September...

Syrian noble woman and member of the Severan dynasty. She was the mother of Roman emperor Alexander Severus and remained one of his chief advisors throughout...

of them. Drachma of Alexandria. Obverse: Bust of Severus Alexander, 222-235 AD. Reverse: Bust of Asclepius. Hadrian coin celebrating the province of Achaia...

army of the Rhine under Emperor Severus Alexander. After Severus was murdered in 235, he was proclaimed emperor by the army, beginning the Crisis of the...

by a soldier in the palace and succeeded by Severus. Julianus was born to Quintus Petronius Didius Severus and Aemilia Clara. His father came from a prominent...

emperor from 198 to 217 AD. He was a member of the Severan dynasty, the elder son of Emperor Septimius Severus and Empress Julia Domna. Proclaimed co-ruler...

Marcianus and their son Severus Alexander. Elagabalus's family held hereditary rights to the priesthood of the sun god Elagabal, of whom Elagabalus was the...

could repeat what he did to Severus, by the promise of large sums of money and the authority of Maximian, many soldiers of Galerius defected to him. Galerius...

said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use. Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public...

accepted Severus' marriage proposal in early 187, and in the summer the couple married in Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon, France), of which Severus was the...

the orders of Severus. Severus had his naked body laid out on the ground before him, so that he could ride his horse over it, in a final act of humiliation...

125,565) Portrait of Geta, son of Septimius Severus Bust of Geta (from Via XX Settembre in Rome) Colossal portrait of Alexander Severus from Ostia (222-235)...

sheets of gold. In June 2022, archaeologists from The Cairo Ministry of Antiquities announced the discovery of an alabaster bust of Alexander the Great...

actor of the stage and screen. Rickman gained international acclaim for his role as Hans Gruber in the action film Die Hard (1988) and Severus Snape in...

under Emperor Septimius Severus, he became an important bureaucrat. Severus' successor Caracalla later appointed him a prefect of the Praetorian Guard....

Prince, Ch. XIX. Pertinax, Marcus Aurelius and Severus Alexander are described as "men of modest life, lovers of justice, enemies to cruelty, humane, and benignant"...

brother, Gaius Fulvius Plautius Hortensianus. Severus and Plautianus arranged for Plautilla to be married to Severus' son and heir, Caracalla, in a lavish ceremony...

his coming of age. He may have been known as "Marcus Annius Catilius Severus", at birth or some point in his youth, or "Marcus Catilius Severus Annius Verus"...

stayed with Cleopatra in Alexandria. The Bust of Cleopatra in the Royal Ontario Museum represents a bust of Cleopatra in the Egyptian style. Dated to...

gold bust of Emperor Septimius Severus found on the site of Plotinopolis in 1965 is now in the museum at Komotini. The city would later be one of the most...

Historiarum, extract: Zonaras: Alexander Severus to Diocletian: 222–284 Zosimus, Historia Nova Lukas de Blois. The policy of the emperor Gallienus, Brill...