ancientart:The first one of the two twin bronze busts of Claudius II (268/269 AD).The gilded bronze
ancientart:The first one of the two twin bronze busts of Claudius II (268/269 AD).The gilded bronze portraits, five of Roman emperors and one of an empress, were hidden beneath the Capitoline temple in Brescia, together with other bronze objects, to prevent the consequences of a possible sack of the town in the 4th or 5th century, and unearthed only in 1826.Courtesy & currently located at the Archaeological Santa Giulia Museum, in Brescia, Italy. Photo taken by Giovanni Dall’Orto -- source link
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