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Marble relief on the Ara Pacis in Rome showing a central seated female figure with two children, flanked by women representing air and water, surrounded by animals and plants. Ara Pacis
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Marble relief on the Ara Pacis in Rome showing a central seated female figure with two children, flanked by women representing air and water, surrounded by animals and plants.
Mother Earth with Air and Water Mother Earth with Air and Water, marble relief on the east exterior wall of the Ara Pacis in Rome, Italy, 13 bce. Height 1.57 m.

Ara Pacis

shrine, Rome, Italy
Also known as: Altar of the Augustan Peace, Ara Pacis Augustae(Show More)
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Ara Pacis, shrine consisting of a marble altar in a walled enclosure erected in Rome’s Campus Martius (Field of Mars) in honour of the emperor Augustus and dedicated on Jan. 30, 9 bce. The dedication was recorded in Ovid’s Fasti as well as by Augustus himself in his “Res Gestae Divi Augusti” (“Achievements of the Divine Augustus”). The structure was commissioned in 13 bce to commemorate Augustus’s return from the provinces of Gaul, where he...

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