... in Roman funerary practices whereby a week after the body of the previous emperor was cremated, there was a procession "from the Capitoline to the Circus, with statues of the gods and a gilded image of the deceased borne in a chariot drawn by elephants,"2 which signaled the start of funerary games. This motif was a standard funerary one and its message of honoring the deceased ... is a depiction of Fecunditas and four children with the inscription FECVND AVGVSTAE S C. Faustina the Younger was the only daughter of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder. In 145, at the age of fifteen, she ...

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