Roman sculpture showing Octavian Augustus
Roman sculpture showing Octavian Augustus. The object is dated to the 2nd century CE. According to the researchers, the object actually depicted a young man, but it was later adopted to represent the first emperor of Rome. The artifact is in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
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