Category: Military

Roman emperor Septimus Severus in Paludamentum and Circular Fibula.

Bust, Septimus Severus, Roman, emperor, circular fibula, paludamentum, British Museum,

Septimius Severus was born in Africa of Roman parents; he died at York in the year 211 a. D. after a severe illness at the age of sixty-six. This bust was found in the year 1776 on the Palatine Hill, in the part of the Palace of the Cæsars now occupied by the Villa Magnani.