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File:Statue-Augustus.jpg

Object

Artist Unknown
Title Augustus of Prima Porta
Date 1st century
Medium white marble
Dimensions Height: 204 cm (80.3 in).
Chiaramonti Museum, Braccio Nuovo (New Wing)
Object history 20 April 1863: discovered (Villa Livia, Prima Porta, Rome)
Inscriptions Text bottom centre:
MUNIF.PII.IX.P.M. - AN.XVIII
[Munificentia Pius IX Pontifex Maximus - Anno XVIII] [Through the generosity of Pope Pius IX, in the eighteenth year of his reign]

Photograph

Description front view
Date 20 October 2007 (according to EXIF data)
Photographer Till Niermann
Source Own work

Camera location

41° 54′ 23.24″ N, 12° 27′ 15.65″ E

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Camera Model Canon EOS 400D
Lens Canon EF 70-300mm F4-5.6 IS USM


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