Busto_di_Claudio_II_il_Gotico,_Brescia,_Santa_Giulia.jpg
Summary
Description Busto di Claudio II il Gotico, Brescia, Santa Giulia.jpg |
English:
One of the two twin bronze busts of
Claudius Gothicus
(268/269 BCE) that were part of a cache of gilded bronze portraits, five of Roman emperors and one of an empress, hidden beneath the Capitoline temple in
Brescia
together with other bronze objects in preparation for a possible sacking of the town in the 4th or 5th century. They were unearthed only in 1826, and are now exhibited in the archaeological
Santa Giulia Museum
in Brescia, Italy.
Italiano:
Il primo dei due ritratti gemelli in bronzo dorato di
Claudio II "il Gotico"
(268/269 d.C.). I busti in bronzo dorato, cinque di imperatori e uno di imperatrice, furono nascosti sotto il
tempio capitolino a Brescia
, assieme ad altri oggetti in metallo pregiato, in previsione del rischio d'un saccheggio della città nel IV/V secolo, e lì dimenticati fino al 1826. Sono esposti al
Museo di Santa Giulia
a Brescia.
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Date | Originally uploaded to it.wikipedia on 18 March 2005. |
Source | Own work . |
Author | Lotho2 . |
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