Ara Pacis
Rome, Italy
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The Ara Pacis Augustae, an ancient Roman altar erected to commemorate the Pax Romana, stands in Rome as a monument to political reconciliation and imperial authority. Commissioned by the Senate on July 4, 13 BC to celebrate Augustus's return from three years in Hispania and Gaul, the altar was consecrated on January 30, 9 BC. Originally positioned on Rome's northern outskirts near the Via Flaminia in the Campus Martius, the structure gradually sank beneath four metres of silt from the Tiber's flood plain. Excavated in the twentieth century, it was reassembled in 1938 at its present location, the Museum of the Ara Pacis, rotated ninety degrees counterclockwise so that its original western face now addresses the south. The monument exemplifies the refined decorative vocabulary of Augustan-era Roman architecture.
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- museum, shrine, archaeological site
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- Rome, Italy
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