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title: Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/
description: A colour lithograph of 1872 showing the Latin text of Augustus's own account of his deeds as cut on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra…
section: Collection
---

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# Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)

A colour lithograph of 1872 showing the Latin text of Augustus's own account of his deeds as cut on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra (Ankara). The three-line heading in large letters says the text is a copy of the deeds by which he subjected the world to the Roman people and of what he spent on them, engraved on two bronze pillars at Rome.

## Text on the object

Original (Latin) · checked against a source transcription

```
RERVM·GESTARVM·DIVI·AVGVSTI·QVIBVS·ORBEM·TERRA[illegible]
IMPERIO·POPVLI·ROM[illegible]
SVBIECIT·ET·INPENSARVM·QVAS·IN·REM·PVBLICAM·POPVLVMQVE[illegible]
[illegible]VM·FECIT·INCISARVM
IN·DVABVS·AHENEIS·PILIS·QVAE·SV[illegible]T·ROMAE·POSITAE·EXEMPLAR·SVBIECTVM
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Copy of the deeds of the Divine Augustus, by which he subjected the world to the rule of the Roman people, and of the expenditures which he made for the state and the Roman people, as engraved on two bronze pillars set up at Rome, placed below.
```

Transcribes only the large-letter heading, as drawn in the plate, where gaps (missing blocks of the wall) are marked [illegible]. Checked against the Latin heading in the Loeb edition (Shipley, 1924, on LacusCurtius), which reads: Rerum gestarum divi Augusti, quibus orbem terrarum imperio populi Rom. subiecit, et inpensarum, quas in rem publicam populumque Romanum fecit, incisarum in duabus aheneis pilis, quae sunt Romae positae, exemplar subiectum. Line breaks follow the plate.

[← Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/)

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