The imperial family at the sacrifice of thanksgiving, detail from the Arch of Galerius 4th century monument,Thessaloniki,Greece.

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The relief of the imperial family conjoined in a sacrifice of thanksgiving owes its distant prototype to the Augustan reliefs on the Ara Pacis in Rome. Galerius' wife, Diocletian's daughter Valeria, is shown at his side, helping authenticate his connection to his predecessor. Here as elsewhere all the faces have been carefully chiselled off, whether as damnatio memoriae or in later cultural intolerance of images. The arch was built in 298 to 299 AD and dedicated in 303 AD to celebrate the victory of the tetrarch Galerius over the Sassanid Persians and capture of their capital Ctesiphon in 298.

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Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: Egnatia & Dimitrios Gounari Street, Thessaloniki, Greece, Europe
Photo credit: © Konstantinos Tsakalidis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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