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Pax Romana Art
The Year of the Five Emperors
Rome · AD 193
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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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The Year of the Five EmperorsFramed print · Black · 24x16″
1.012 kr
1.352 krSave 340 kr
Rome · AD 193
The year the empire was sold
Commodus was murdered on the last night of AD 192. The Praetorian Guard hailed Publius Helvius Pertinax, a general of Marcus Aurelius aged 66, and the Senate recognized him on 1 January. He lasted less than three months: on 28 March soldiers of the Guard killed him in the palace. The Guard then sold the throne. Marcus Didius Julianus, a rich senator, outbid Pertinax's father-in-law with an offer of 25,000 sesterces a soldier. Cassius Dio, who sat in the Senate in Rome that year, wrote that the City and its whole empire were auctioned off as if in a market.
The armies of the provinces did not accept the sale. Pescennius Niger, governor of Syria, was hailed by the armies of the East in April. Lucius Septimius Severus, governor of Upper Pannonia, was hailed by the legions at Carnuntum on 9 April. Severus offered Clodius Albinus, governor of Britain, the junior title of Caesar; the plate counts Albinus among the five, though in 193 he held only that title. In June the Senate deposed Julianus, who was killed in the palace, and recognized Severus. Niger was defeated at Issus in 194 and beheaded as he fled. Albinus claimed the title Augustus in 195 or 196 and was defeated near Lugdunum in February 197; he took his own life, says Dio.
The piece
The plate turns a chaotic year into a clear chart. Solid bands mark recognition by the Senate, hatched bands an acclamation without it, and stippled bands the junior title of Caesar. The eye runs down the lanes from Pertinax's short ochre bar to Severus's long red one, which runs on past 197 and ends in an arrow.
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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