It was brought back from Beirut, one of a pair, in the 1830s by Commodore Jesse Elliott, who had convinced himself that they belonged to the emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea, who ...

We have previously discussed the Crisis of the 3rd Century, that period of antiquity also known as the Anarchy of the 3rd ...

Portrait head of the Roman emperor Severus Alexander (AD 222-235) as a very young man . The left side of head was restored by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi. The hair is arranged in characteristic long flat ...

Cleve, R.L. Severus Alexander and the Severan women. 1982. nil Meckler, M.L. "Caracalla the intellectual," Gli imperatori Severi: storia, archeologia, religione, edd ...

Now she turns her attention to the role of the Roman emperor, from the rule of Augustus (31 BC–AD 14) to the death of Alexander Severus in AD 235. In an engaging prologue, ‘Dinner with Elagabalus’ ...