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Pax Romana Art
The Severans
Rome and Emesa · AD 193–235
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- Printed in the USA. Made to order and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Shatterproof plexiglass. Framed prints sit in a pine frame, FSC-certified, and arrive ready to hang.
- Magnetic wooden hanger. Posters come with a pine hanger; the magnets hold the print.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
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Framed print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
Hanging print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
- Sizes: 18x12″ · 24x16″ · 36x24″
- Orientation: Horizontal
- Medium: Fine art paper
- Style: Family tree
- Era: Crisis & Late Empire
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Made to order and printed and framed in the USA. Produced in 1–2 business days, delivered 2–5 business days after that — 3–7 business days door to door. Free US shipping, tracked.
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The SeveransFramed print · Black · 24x16″
1.012 kr
1.352 krSave 340 kr
Rome and Emesa · AD 193–235
The empresses who held a dynasty
Septimius Severus was born at Leptis Magna in Roman Africa in AD 145 and became emperor in 193. He had married into a priestly family of Emesa in Syria, and its women held the dynasty together. His wife Julia Domna was named Augusta and bore two emperors, Caracalla and Geta. After Severus died at York in 211, the brothers ruled together until Geta was killed on his brother's orders that December. Caracalla was killed near Carrhae in 217, in a plot organized by his praetorian prefect, Macrinus.
In 218 Julia Maesa, Domna's sister, raised her grandson Elagabalus against Macrinus, giving out that he was Caracalla's son. Elagabalus was a priest of the Sun god of Emesa. In 221 he adopted his cousin Severus Alexander, son of Julia Mamaea. Both of Maesa's grandsons reigned, and both were killed by their own soldiers, each with his mother: Elagabalus in 222, Severus Alexander near Mainz in 235. After 235 came half a century of short reigns and civil war.
The piece
The plate takes up an old Roman idea of the family tree, in which painted portraits of ancestors were joined by lines. Here the portraits are the tree, set on deep red and framed in black. The eye starts with Severus and Domna at the top left, follows their marriage line down to their sons, then crosses past Macrinus to Maesa's branch and the two young emperors at the bottom right, joined by the dashed gold line of adoption. The note box adds a detail from the Severan Tondo in Berlin, a family portrait in which one son's face has been erased, most likely Geta's.
Materia · The materials
Fine art paper, framed or hung.
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Fine art paper
Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.
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Shatterproof plexiglass
Protects the print in transit and on the wall.
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Magnetic wooden hanger
Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.
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