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Vol. V · Deified Humans
Emperor Caracalla
Roman emperor who obsessively identified himself with Alexander the Great and the god Serapis
his brooding divine portrait reproduced across the empire on coin and stone
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.