This marble statue of Armenia was adorned on a Roman temple of Hadrian erected by Antoninus Pius in 145 AD. The Roman temple depicted statues representing Roman provinces among them the Roman province of Armenia. The Temple of Hadrian is a temple to the deified roman emperor Hadrian on the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy, built by his...
Why a Roman God wears an Armenian Tiara!
During various periods in the ancient Rome, several “mystery” cults and their deities of Near Eastern character became highly popularized. Through Roman expansion into the east, Roman society came in contact with many Near Eastern and Middle Eastern religions and started to worship some of the deities in their own fashion. Mithras Maybe the most famous...
Armenia on one of the bases supporting imperial reliefs in the Sebasteion
Armenia on one of the bases supporting imperial reliefs in the Sebasteion, 1st c. AD. On the left it reads: Armenia. On the right it reads: Nero Claudius Drusus, Caesar Augustus Germanicus.
Ancient Armenian cities as recorded by the Greeks and Romans
Armenia was well known to classical Greek and Roman writers who on occasion made personal journeys to Armenia describing some of its countryside, villages and cities. Many of which are today only remembered through their records. Pliny the Elder for example recounts a few in his work “The Natural History” (6.10): “The more famous...
