The Sabine Numa Pompilius, legendary second king of Rome, offered the crown and sceptre by two senators after the death of Romulus, 673 BC. Couronne et sceptre offerts a Numa. Copperplate engraving by Joseph Stöber after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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