At 4.24 m tall, this towering ancient Roman statue of the emperor [Marcus Aurelius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius) dominates the gallery in the Capitoline Museum in which it stands. This bronze statue was likely commisioned and erected in the 2nd century AD either to commemorate Marcus Aurelius' victory over the Germanic tribes or his death.

See the museum entry [here](http://www.museicapitolini.org/en/percorsi/percorsi_per_sale/museo_del_palazzo_dei_conservatori/esedra_di_marco_aurelio/statua_equestre_di_marco_aurelio).

*Note:* Due to the height and location of the statue, it was not possible to photograph from above. As a result some detail on top of the statue is missing.

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius from the equestrian statue in the Capitol, known before 1187. Roman, 170-180 AD Rome, Museo Capitolino. The Royal Cast collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

Marcus Aurelius 26 April 121 – 17 March 180 AD) was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. Marcus Aurelius was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors. 
During his reign, the Empire defeated a revitalized Parthian Empire in the East: Aurelius' general Avidius Cassius sacked the capital Ctesiphon in 164 AD. In central Europe, Aurelius fought the Marcomanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians with success during the Marcomannic Wars, although the threat of the Germanic tribes began to represent a troubling reality for the Empire. A revolt in the East led by Avidius Cassius failed to gain momentum and was suppressed immediately. (ref Wikipedia)

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Marcus Aurelius

Horseman at Maria-Theresia-Platz in Vienna. The sculptural masterpiece in marble was created by Theodor Friedl. The statue from 1892 shows a Germanic man trying to tame a rearing horse.

The motif of the horseman or horse tamers has often been depicted in sculpture. Examples from the Roman period are the Dioscuri on Capitol Square and the Dioscuri Fountain on Quirinal Square in Rome.

As you can see on the picture, the shooting was quite difficult because of the nearby tree. In the background the Natural History Museum. 
![](https://wien.noe-3d.at/SF/rossbaendiger.jpg)

Rossbändiger

“Germanicus” – a plaster cast of an antique sculpture

ID no.: Rz 12

Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2233

Digitalisation: RDW MIC, Virtual Małopolska project

“Germanicus” – a plaster cast

This building is situated in the open-air museum of Elsarn (Lower Austria) and was built in 1997. The open-air museum at Elsarn tries to give insights into a germanic farmstad of the 2 nd / 3rd cent A.D. in the area north of the river Danube.


The building shows the main house of a rural farmstad where man and its livestock were living in the same accomudation.

[open-air museum Elsarn](http://www.freilichtmuseum-elsarn.at/cms/website.php)

Germanic house (Elsarn)

Between 1881 and 1893 a substantial boat burial site from the late Germanic Iron Age was discovered in the cemetery at Vendel Church in Uppland, Sweden. The finds were so extraordinary that the location was used to name the period between 550 and 750 CE – Now known as the [Vendel Period](https://tinyurl.com/2422475d). 

While many of the burials at Vendel had already been plundered in antiquity, the graves of Vendel I, XII and XIV had remained undisturbed.
The helmets found in these graves were manufactured in Scandinavia and represent an exceptional evidence of the late Germanic Iron Age in Northern Europe, both in terms of their uniqueness, completeness and quality.

[More about the Vendel I Helmet in our Online Collections](https://tinyurl.com/n43vmcuy)

[The Vendel I Helmet at Dynamic Collections](https://tinyurl.com/3ffknh49)

Full dataset coming soon at Zenodo

The Vendel I Helmet

Between 1881 and 1893 a substantial boat burial site from the late Germanic Iron Age was discovered in the cemetery at Vendel Church in Uppland, Sweden. The finds were so extraordinary that the location was used to name the period between 550 and 750 CE – Now known as the [Vendel Period](https://tinyurl.com/2422475d). 

While many of the burials at Vendel had already been plundered in antiquity, the graves of Vendel I, XII and XIV had remained undisturbed.
The helmets found in these graves were manufactured in Scandinavia and represent an exceptional evidence of the late Germanic Iron Age in Northern Europe, both in terms of their uniqueness, completeness and quality.

[More about the Vendel XII Helmet in our Online Collections](https://tinyurl.com/mryd39xh)

[The Vendel XII Helmet at Dynamic Collections](https://tinyurl.com/4j2c5rp2)

[Full dataset at Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/19069186)

The Vendel XII Helmet

Between 1881 and 1893 a substantial boat burial site from the late Germanic Iron Age was discovered in the cemetery at Vendel Church in Uppland, Sweden. The finds were so extraordinary that the location was used to name the period between 550 and 750 CE – Now known as the [Vendel Period](https://tinyurl.com/2422475d). 

While many of the burials at Vendel had already been plundered in antiquity, the graves of Vendel I, XII and XIV had remained undisturbed.
The helmets found in these graves were manufactured in Scandinavia and represent an exceptional evidence of the late Germanic Iron Age in Northern Europe, both in terms of their uniqueness, completeness and quality.

[More about the Vendel XIV Helmet in our Online Collections](https://tinyurl.com/4mcp2ce3)

[The Vendel XIV Helmet at Dynamic Collections](https://tinyurl.com/3hj77wbn)

Full dataset coming soon at Zenodo

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