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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24864843, member: 26430"]In order: Trajan (can't tell from photo if it's just a rough example or possible cast), Caracalla (not Antoninus Pius), and Aurelian.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Caracalla" is a nickname, not his regnal name, <b>Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius</b>:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>"Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, son of the deified Septimius Severus, conqueror of Arabia, conqueror of Adiabene, Most Great Conqueror of Parthia, Most Great Conqueror of Britain, grandson of the deified Antoninus Pius, conqueror of Germany, conqueror of Sarmatia, great-grandson of the deified Antoninus Pius, great-great-grandson of the deified Hadrian, great-great-great-grandson of the deified Trajan, conqueror of Parthia, and of the deified Nerva …"</p><p>-- <a href="https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/1018" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/1018" rel="nofollow">RIB 1018</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>They're all like that, and tended to have overlapping names whether or not they were related or adopted, which is why we use the shortened nicknames most of the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24864843, member: 26430"]In order: Trajan (can't tell from photo if it's just a rough example or possible cast), Caracalla (not Antoninus Pius), and Aurelian. "Caracalla" is a nickname, not his regnal name, [B]Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius[/B]: [INDENT]"Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, son of the deified Septimius Severus, conqueror of Arabia, conqueror of Adiabene, Most Great Conqueror of Parthia, Most Great Conqueror of Britain, grandson of the deified Antoninus Pius, conqueror of Germany, conqueror of Sarmatia, great-grandson of the deified Antoninus Pius, great-great-grandson of the deified Hadrian, great-great-great-grandson of the deified Trajan, conqueror of Parthia, and of the deified Nerva …" -- [URL='https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/1018']RIB 1018[/URL][/INDENT] They're all like that, and tended to have overlapping names whether or not they were related or adopted, which is why we use the shortened nicknames most of the time.[/QUOTE]
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