Lanuvium
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Lanuvium, modern Lanuvio, is an ancient city of Latium vetus, some 32 kilometres southeast of Rome, a little southwest of the Via Appia.
Warrior tomb from Lanuvium (5th century BC), located in the Baths of Diocletian Museum, Rome
Close-up of the helmet
Silver denarius struck by L. Papius Celsus in Rome 45 BC. The obverse depicts the Juno Sospita whose main center of worshipping was Lanuvium and the reverse depicts a founder myth.
The portico of the Sanctuary of Juno Sospita
Antoninus Pius
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Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius was Roman emperor from AD 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty and also the fourth of the six adoptive emperors
Lanuvium
…borrowed money in 31 BC, and the possessions of which extended as far as the coast of the Mediterranean. It possessed many other temples repaired by Antoninus Pius, who was born close by (S. H. A. Ant. Pius 1), as was Commodus. One prominent native of Lanuvium was Lucius Licinius Murena (consul of 62 BC), whom…
Bust at the Ancient Agora Museum
Denarius, struck 140 AD with portrait of Antoninus Pius (obverse) and his adoptive son Marcus Aurelius (reverse). Inscription: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P. P., TR. P., CO[N]S. III / AVRELIVS CAES. AVG. PII F. CO[N]S.
Statue of Faustina the Elder in the Getty Villa
Marble bust of Antoninus Pius (138–161); British Museum, London