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Additional Resources

If you're interested in learning more, here are a few resources that I found interesting!

01

https://www.penn.museum/collections/highlights/mediterranean/puteoli-marble-block.php 

If you're interested in learning more about the Puteoli Marble Block, which has an erased inscription to Domitian, the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has a great page dedicated to it. This is actually where the Block is housed, so there are also pictures of it as well.

 

02

https://www.roman-emperors.org/geta.htm

This page links to a detailed account of the political machinations and events surrounding Septimius Severus' son Geta's murder, part of a website that serves as an encyclopedia of Roman Emperors. The website also has a catalogue of Roman coins, where you can view coins of the Emperors and of those who had received damnatio memoriae!

 

03

http://www.britishmuseum.org/

In addition to housing many artifacts from the Roman world, the British Museum's online collection contains several examples of damnatio memoriae. One such example is a bust of Vespasian believed to have been re-cut from Nero.

 

04

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Arcus_Argentariorum.html#photo_98A93.18

If you wanted to learn more about the Arch of the Argentarii, which features Geta and Caracalla, this website offers detailed information and images of the arch.

 

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http://www.livius.org/articles/concept/damnatio-memoriae/

This website, in general, contains an abundance of pages dedicated to all aspects of ancient history. This page in particular offers a comprehensive list of those in the Imperial family who received damnatio memoriae, and also provides links to pages that offer more information on that specific person.

Background: Map of ancient Rome by Matthaus Seutter. Source: Alan W., Flickr. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

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