The personified figure [left] holding the obelisk represents the Campus Martius. The personified female figure represents Rome. Roma's shield depicts the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus suckled by a wolf. She seems to salute the royal couple. The co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the successors of Emperor Antoninus Pius [138-61], set up a column to honor the deified Antoninus. One side of the base has a dedicatory inscription, two sides record the funerary decursio, a ceremony performed by the Roman cavalry, and one side shows the ascent of the emperor and his wife to Heaven. The column itself has not been preserved.
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