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Reliefs of Marcus Aurelius" (161/180)
about 176/180.
They probably come from an official monument, maybe an arch
dedicated to Marcus Aurelius. Eight other reliefs from the same monument were
reused for the Arch of Constantine. From left:
"Mercy" with a gesture of appeasement
identical to that of the famous bronze monument
"Victory" with a woman representing
Victory crowning him and the Temple of Fortuna.
There's an empty space beside
him on the chariot due to the cancellation of the image of his son Commodus,
who was emperor associated with his father at the time but, after his death,
would receive the damnatio memoriae or deletion of all his images
"Religiosity" religious ceremony at
the end of the triumph in front of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. On the
left the man with the beard is the Genius of the Senate and on the right the
building represented is maybe the Tensarium or"garage" for the
tensae, a kind of sacred rickshaws used in religious ceremonies
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