Marble relief showing fallen cataphracts and destroyed chariots

Marble relief showing fallen cataphracts and destroyed chariots. The object may be an artistic visualization of the defeat of the Seleucid Monarchy at Magnesia in 190 BCE. The artifact is located in the Pergamon Museum (Panorama) in Berlin (Germany).

Battle of Magnesia was the decisive military clash in the war between Rome and the Seleucid Empire of Antiochus III the Great. The battle was fought in December or January 190 BCE, near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia (present-day Turkey).

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Battle of Magnesia Second Punic War Gallic Wars Seleucid war with Antiochus III Wars of second triumvirate