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A Roman marble portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius (r. 138-161 CE), acquired by the British Museum in 1850 from Richard Cockle Lucas. Even before that, the portrait was in the collections of the Grimani palace, Venice. The portrait has undergone significant restorations, including the beard on the chin, the nose, and parts of the mustache (see full conservation notes on the BM website: www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_data... British Museum inv. 1850,0116.1 H: 27…

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The five Roman emperors, Nerva (96–98 CE), Trajan (98–117), Hadrian (117–138), Antoninus Pius (138–161), and Marcus Aurelius (161–180), who ruled over the most majestic days of the empire. It was not a bloodline. Nerva was made emperor by the killers of Domitian, and the others were successively adopted heirs.

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