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Ara Pacis museum in Rome, Italy #155044637
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Model of the Ara Pacis of Augustus in the didactic area of the new museum complex for the Ara Pacis in Rome Italy. The Altar of Augustan Peace, commonly shortened to Ara Pacis is an altar dedicated to Pax, the Roman goddess of Peace. The monument was inaugurated on January 30, 9 B.C. It stood in the northeastern corner of the Campus Martius, the former flood plain of the Tiber River and gradually became buried under 4 meters 13 ft of silt deposits. It was reassembled in its current location, now the Museum of the Ara Pacis, in 1938
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