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A bronze nummus of Aquileia depicting Galerius, r. 305-311 CE (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Constantine I, aka Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from 306 to 337 CE. Realizing that the Roman Empire was too large for one man to adequately rule, Emperor Diocletian (284-305 CE) split the empire into two, creating a tetrachy or...

Relief scenes from the one of the pillars of Galerius' triumphal arch in Thessalonica. Erected in 298 CE the arch and sculpture commemorated the Roman victory over the Persians.

The triumphal arch of Galerius, Roman emperor, who defeated the Persians in 298 CE. The pillars carry relief scenes from the campaign.

Diocletian was Roman emperor from 284 to 305 CE. After the defeat and death of the Roman emperor Philip the Arab in 249 CE, the empire endured over three decades of ineffective rulers. The glory days of Augustus, Vespasian, and Trajan were...

Thessalonica (also Thessalonike) was an ancient city of Macedon in northern Greece which today is the city of Thessaloniki. Made capital of the Roman province of Macedon, the city flourished due to its location on the major trade route to...

Constantine I (Flavius Valerius Constantinus) was Roman emperor from 306-337 CE and is known to history as Constantine the Great for his conversion to Christianity in 312 CE and his subsequent Christianization of the Roman Empire. His conversion...

This map illustrates the Roman Tetrarchy, a four-part imperial system established by Emperor Diocletian (reigned 284–305 CE) in 293 CE to stabilize and defend the sprawling Roman Empire. It aimed to address political instability, streamline...

Porphyry sculpture portraying the four Tetrarchs (Diocletian, Maximianus, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus) embracing. It is dated to c. 300 CE and was sculpted in Asia Minor. It probably originally decorated two separate pillars in Constantinople...

Roman sculpture blended the idealised perfection of Classical Greek sculpture with a greater aspiration for realism. It also absorbed artistic preferences and styles from the East to create images in stone and bronze which rank among the...