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Unlike the situation in 161, both emperors were elected as pontifices maximi, chief priests of the official cults. [7] This would be unthinkable in Republican times. Balbinus was probably in his early seventies: his qualifications for rule are unknown, except presumably that he was a senior senator, rich and well-connected.
Ancient Roman statue of emperor Balbinus, dating from 238 AD, on display in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus (Athens) Bronze of Trebonianus Gallus dating from the time of his reign as Roman Emperor, the only surviving near-complete full-size 3rd-century Roman bronze ( Metropolitan Museum of Art ) [ 23 ]
The paired statues stand on plinths supported by a console of the same stone, and their backs are engaged in the remains of large porphyry columns to which the statues were once attached, carved all of a piece. [1] The columns no longer exist, and one emperor pair is missing part of the plinth and an emperor's foot, which has been found in ...
Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
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The Year of the Six Emperors was the year AD 238, during which six men made claims to be emperors of Rome.This was an early symptom of what historians now call the Crisis of the Third Century, also known as Military Anarchy or the Imperial Crisis (AD 235–285), a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of foreign invasions and migrations into the Roman ...
The Historia Augusta, whose testimony is not to be trusted unreservedly, paints Pupienus as an example of advancement through the cursus honorum due to military success. It claims he was the son of a blacksmith, was adopted by one Pescennia Marcellina (otherwise unknown), and who started his career as a Centurio primus pilus before becoming a tribunus militum, and then a praetor.
Monument to Emperor Francis I: Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor: 48 Monument to Emperor Joseph II: Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor: 49 Monument to Maximilian I of Mexico: Maximilian I of Mexico: 50 Fish Pool: 51 Diana and Meleager: Johann Wilhelm Beyer The statues are located in the Hietzinger Privy Gardens, the private garden of emperor Franz ...