Back Altar de Domici Ahenobarb Catalan Βωμός του Δομίτιου Αηνόβαρβου Greek Altar de Domicio Enobarbo Spanish Base du groupe statuaire de Domitius Ahenobarbus French Altar Domitius Ahenobarbus ID Ara di Domizio Enobarbo Italian Ara Domitii Ahenobarbi Dutch Ołtarz Domicjusza Ahenobarbusa Polish Oltar Domcija Ahenobarba Slovenian
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   Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus Shown within Rome | |
| Location | Field of Mars [1] |
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| Coordinates | 41°53′41″N 12°28′27″E / 41.894611°N 12.474239°E |
| Type | bas-relief |
| History | |
| Builder | Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus |
| Founded | Between 122 and 115 BC |
The Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus (more properly called the Statuary group base of Domitius Ahenobarbus) is a series of four sculpted marble plaques that probably decorated a base supporting cult statues in the cella of a Temple of Neptune located in Rome on the Field of Mars.
The frieze is dated to the end of the second century BC,[n 1] which makes it the second oldest Roman bas-relief currently known.[n 2] However, there is also a contemporaneous relief depicting a Roman naval bireme with armed marines,[1] from a temple of Palestrina built c. 120 BC.[2]
The sculpted panels are still visible today, with one portion on display at the Louvre (Ma 975[m 1]) and another at the Glyptothek in Munich (Inv. 239). A copy of this second piece can be seen at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
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- ^ From the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia in Praeneste (Palestrina), now in the Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican Museums, see: D.B. Saddington (2011) [2007]. "the Evolution of the Roman Imperial Fleets," in Paul Erdkamp (ed), A Companion to the Roman Army, 201-217. Malden, Oxford, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-2153-8. Plate 12.2 on p. 204.
- ^ Coarelli, Filippo (1987), I Santuari del Lazio in età repubblicana. NIS, Rome, pp 35-84.
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