Roman triumphal honours
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Triumphal honours
)Roman triumphal honours (Latin: insignia or ornamenta triumphalia) denotes honours awarded during the Roman Empire to a victorious general in lieu of a full Roman triumph.
After 14 BC, it became the policy of the founder-emperor
Julio-Claudian dynasty. As a substitute, victorious generals who were unrelated to the imperial house were awarded insignia (or ornamenta) triumphalia. That is, the dress and privileges traditionally granted to a triumphator, without the elaborate triumphal procession through Rome at the head of his troops.[1]
Insignia
The honours included the right to wear triumphal dress in public: the corona triumphalis (a gold
Consuls in office and other magistrates
when presiding over games.
In addition, a bronze statue of the beneficiary of triumphal honours was erected in the Forum of Augustus. The beneficiary also had the right to display a further statue of himself in triumphal attire in the vestibule of his own house, which could also be displayed by his descendants.
Later history
Triumphal honours became debased in the latter part of
Antonines (98–180), the winners of triumphal honours lost the right to wear triumphal dress, which was now reserved for the Consuls and for the emperors themselves, but retained the privilege of a public statue.[2] Hadrian (r. 117–138) awarded ornamenta triumphalia to Sextus Julius Severus and other generals after the Bar Kokhba revolt.[3]
See also
Citations
- ISBN 978-0-520-04499-9. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ Smith's (1890) Corona, Toga, Triumphus
- ^ W. Eck. 1999. The Bar Kokhba Revolt: The Roman Point of View. The Journal of Roman Sudies, vol 89, pp. 76-89.
References
- Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities(1890)