way that Augustus places himself into the triumphal formula on the Gemma Augustea. Enthroned beside Roma, Augustus is surrounded by the imagery of victory. The lower register is filled with bound captives [...] as Augustus, with the eagle of Jupiter beneath him, is crowned by a female personification. Both Roma and Augustus place their feet on a shield representing the conquered enemy. Through this imagery, [...] 1976 F. Coarelli, “Cinque frammenti di una tomba dipinta dall’Esquilino” in Affreschi romani, Roma. 22-28. Cumont, F. 1975 F. Cumont, Recherches sur le Symbolisme Funéraire des Romains. New
Materiali di Storia delle Religioni IV, 1928 207-234;E. Montanari: Roma: momenti di una presa di coscienza culturale , Roma 1976, 149-151. ↩ CIL I 2 240. ↩ Cf. L. Ross [...] I 277; cfr. Basanoff 1947, 26; Brelich 1949, 9-10; G. Ferri, Valerio Sorano e il nome segreto di Roma, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 74 (n. s. XXXI, 2), 2007, pp. 271-303. ↩
so-called Narkissos in Florence [Galleria dei Uffizi no. 299; G. A. Mansuelli, Galleria degli Uffizi I (Roma 1958) 120 no. 81 fig. 83] as well as one of the Niobids in the neo-attic “Relief Campana” in St.