Book Title: Petri Lambecii Hamburgensis Commentariorum de augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi liber primus [-octavus].

Author: Lambeck, Peter, 1628-1680

Image Title: Gemma Augustea

Description: In the top half of this image, Augustus (r. 27 BCE – 14 CE) personifies himself as Jupiter with an eagle at his feet. Beside him are the Roman deities Oikoumene, Victory, Oceanus, Roma, and Italia Turrita as well as his successor Tiberius and adopted grandson Germanicus. In the bottom half of the image, Roman soldiers hold barbarians captive and erect a tropaion.

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