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Caracalla

"Antoninus belonged to three races [Gaul, Africa, Syria]; and he possessed none of their virtues at all, but combined in himself all their vices."

Dio, Roman History (LXXVIII.6.1)

This marble bust, which is less battered that the more familiar one in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, is in the Pergamon Museum (Berlin).

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