The Ara Pacis, or Altar of Augustan Peace, is a monumental altar in Rome, ordered by the Roman Senate to honour the return of the emperor Augustus from campaigns in Spain and Gaul, and to celebrate the peace he had brought after years of civil war. It is a marble enclosure with a processional frieze showing Augustus, members of his family, priests and officials, and with panels showing the legendary origins of Rome and allegorical figures of the earth's fertility. The altar was lost for centuries, and fragments were recovered from beneath a palace over several excavations, and reassembled in the 1930s. Since 2006 it has been housed in a museum designed by the architect Richard Meier near the Tiber.
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- 9 BCEOrigins of Ara Pacis
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