Globe from atop the Vatican Obelisk, thought in Medieval times to contain Julius Caesar’s ashes
Gilded bronze. First half of the 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. S 1066.Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Medieval RoomPhoto by Sergey Sosnovskiy
Globe from atop the Vatican Obelisk, thought in Medieval times to contain Julius Caesar’s ashes.
Gilded bronze. First half of the 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. S 1066.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Medieval Room
(Roma, Musei capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Sala del Medioevo).
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