Frontinus
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Sextus Julius Frontinus was a Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD. He was a successful general under Domitian, commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the R
Remains of aqueducts Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus, integrated into the Aurelian Wall as a gate in 271 AD.
Remains of Aqua Claudia
Nerva
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Nerva was a Roman emperor from AD 96 to 98. Nerva became emperor when aged almost 66, after a lifetime of imperial service under Nero and the succeeding rulers of the Flavian dynasty.
Plaster cast head portrait set in 1st-century statue, Chiaramonti Museum
Head of Nerva, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, 96-98 AD
The last remaining columns from the largely blind peristyle surrounding a temple to Minerva, located at the heart of the Forum of Nerva. The visible door frame is not an original element but rather one of the many modifications made during the Middle Ages.
Nerva as Jupiter, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen