Caracalla - New York City, NY
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N 40° 46.720 W 073° 57.767
18T E 587523 N 4514704
This sculpture is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Waymark Code: WMKK95
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/25/2014
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This 3rd century bronze bust of the Emperor Caracalla depicts just the head. He is seen as a young man with a broad nose, curly hair and a trimmed beard. He was only 23 years old when he became Emperor and only 29 when he died.
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"Caracalla (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus; 4 April 188 – 8 April 217) was Roman emperor of Punic and Syrian descent from 198 to 217. The eldest son of Septimius Severus, he reigned jointly with his father from 198 until Severus' death in 211. For a short time he then ruled jointly with his younger brother Geta until he had him murdered later in 211. Caracalla is remembered as one of the most notorious and unpleasant of emperors because of the massacres and persecutions he authorized and instigated throughout the Empire.
Caracalla's reign was also notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana (also called the Edict of Caracalla or the Antonine Constitution), granting Roman citizenship to all freemen throughout the Roman Empire, which according to historian Cassius Dio, was done for the purposes of raising tax revenue. He is also one of the emperors who commissioned a large public bath-house (thermae) in Rome. The remains of the Baths of Caracalla are still one of the major tourist attractions of the Italian capital."