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The Column of Antoninus Pius (Italian: Colonna di Antonino Pio) is a Roman honorific column in Rome, Italy, devoted in AD 161 to the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, in the Campus Martius, on the edge of the hill now known as Monte Citorio, and set up by his successors, the co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
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English: Antoninus Pius, with Marcus Aurelius as Caesar. AD 138-161. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.44 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 139. Laureate bust of Antoninus Pius right, slight drapery / Bare head of Marcus Aurelius left. RIC III 412a var. (no slight drapery); RSC 3 var. (same). VF. Rare with slight drapery. First numismatic portrait of Marcus ...
English: Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.21 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck AD 140-144. Laureate head right / Pius standing right, holding small statuette of Concordia, clasping right hands with Faustina Senior standing left, holding scepter; between them stand Marcus Aurelius and Faustina Junior, clasping hands over an altar.
Arch of Antoninus Pius in Sbeïtla, Tunisia. Statue of Antoninus Pius, Palazzo Altemps, Rome. The only intact account of his life handed down to us is that of the Augustan History, an unreliable and mostly fabricated work. Nevertheless, it still contains information that is considered reasonably sound; for instance, it is the only source that ...
File:Temple of Divus Antoninus Pius and Diva Faustina, Upper Via Sacra, Rome (33093993915).jpg
[2] [3] [4] Antoninus Pius never visited Britain, unlike his predecessor Hadrian. Pressure from the Caledonians probably led Antoninus to send the empire's troops further north. The Antonine Wall was protected by 16 forts with small fortlets between them; troop movement was facilitated by a road linking all the sites known as the Military Way .