File:Statue of Augustus (1st cent. B.C.) at the National Archaeological Museum on 2 January 2020.jpg

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English: Statue of the emperor Augustus (29 B.C. - A.D. 14). Bronze. Found in the Aegean Sea between the islands of Euboea and Agios Eftratios. The emperor is depicted in mature age, mounting a horse. He wears a tunica with a vertical purple stripe (clavus purpurea) and a fringed paludamentum decorated with a meander pattern. Iconographic features of the Prima Porta and Actium types are combined in this statue. The right hand is raised in a gesture of official greeting. The hilt of his sword can be seen below the left hand, in which he held the horse's reigns. On the bezel of his finger-ring a staff of divination (lituus) is engraved, symbolizing the supreme religious office of Pontifex Maximus, assumed by Augustus in 12 B.C. 12-10 B.C. Inv. no. X 23322 NAtional Archaeological Museum of Athens. Textː Museum inscription.
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Camera location37° 59′ 20.44″ N, 23° 43′ 58.65″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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