<p data-block-key="j3fv0">The Altar of Augustan Peace in the *Campus Martius was voted by the senate in 13 B.C. to celebrate Augustus’ return from Gaul and Spain and dedicated on 30 January 9 B.C. (<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/2*.html"><i>RG</i> 12: <i>aram Pacis Augustae</i></a>; <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkOne.php#anchor_Toc69367270">Ov., <i>Fast</i>. 1.709-22</a>; <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/54*.html">Cass. Dio 54.25</a>; <a href="https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_ergebnis.php"><i>CIL</i> I2 244</a>; <a href="https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_url.php?p_edcs_id=EDCS-18200416&amp;s_sprache=en"><i>CIL</i> VI 2028</a>). It stood in the N campus about 30 m W of the *Via Flaminia, near the intersection of Via in Lucina and Via dell’Impresa. Fragments of its decorative friezes were first unearthed in 1568, and sporadic excavations continued to bring forth pieces of the altar for the next three and a half centuries. The remaining portions were finally excavated in 1938. The reconstructed altar now stands beside Via di Ripetta across from the remains of the *Mausoleum of Augustus.</p><p data-block-key="modsm">The dimensions of the Ara Pacis Augustae are rather modest. It was constructed entirely of Luna marble, and consists of a rectangular screen wall (11 x 10 m) with doorways on the E and W, inside which the U-shaped altar stood beneath the open sky on a stepped platform. It was originally situated at the edge of a terrace, so that a staircase of 9 steps was necessary to communicate between the plaza of the *“Horologium Augusti” and the W entrance, while the E entrance was even with the level of the Via Flaminia. The altar and its screen wall were almost entirely covered with decorative friezes; the most famous depict a religious procession in which Augustus and members of his family figure prominently. The altar’s decoration also included allegorical scenes from Roman mythology, elaborate floral panels, and depictions of garlands and bucrania. It is possible that the <i>ara</i> of Fortuna Redux (s.v. *Honos et Virtus, Aedes [<i>ad portam Capenam</i>]), which was built to celebrate another <i>adventus</i> of Augustus, may have had a similar design.<br/><br/></p><embed alt="arapacis.jpg" embedtype="image" format="fullwidth" id="348"/><p data-block-key="os9pb">Southwest Entrance</p><p data-block-key="b6c69">Rabax63, 2017, CCA-SA 4.0</p><p data-block-key="354qf"></p><p data-block-key="16qi8"></p><embed alt="Claridge Picture" embedtype="image" format="large-image" id="353"/><p data-block-key="aivgg">Reconstructed altar based on Claridge, 2010</p><p data-block-key="fcece"></p><embed alt="RizzoPicture" embedtype="image" format="large-image" id="354"/><p data-block-key="d4k6d">Actual state plan based on Rizzo, 1926<br/>Drawings and links created by Savhanna Long<br/></p>