Roman Emperor Caligula ancient Assarius

Caligula, formally known as Gaius, was the third Roman emperor, ruling from 37 to 41. The son of the popular Roman general Germanicus and Augustus's granddaughter Agrippina the Elder, Caligula was born into the first ruling family of the Roman Empire, conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Obverse: Bare head of Caligula facing left.
Obv. Legend: C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT

Reverse: Vesta, veiled and draped, seated facing left on throne with ornamented back and legs, holding patera in right hand and long transverse sceptre in left.
VESTA. S in left field, C in right.
Rome mint.

Reign: Mar. 16th, 37 - Jan. 24th, 41 AD.
Predecessor: Tiberius
Successor: Claudius
Dynasty: Julio-Claudian
Father: Germanicus
Mother: Argippina the Elder

Caligula had two large ships constructed for himself (which were recovered from the bottom of Lake Nemi around 1930). The ships were among the largest vessels in the ancient world. The smaller ship was designed as a temple dedicated to Diana. The larger ship was essentially an elaborate floating palace with marble floors and plumbing. The ships burned in 1944 after an attack in the Second World War; almost nothing remains of their hulls, though many archaeological treasures remain intact in the museum at Lake Nemi and in the Museo Nazionale Romano (Palazzo Massimo) at Rome.

I read an article recently that someone had a beautiful mosaic from Caligula’s ship & was using it as a coffee table, but the owner didn’t even know 😆

Caligula completed the temple of Augustus and the theatre of Pompey and began an amphitheatre beside the Saepta. He expanded the imperial palace. He began the aqueducts Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus, which Pliny the Elder considered engineering marvels. He built a large racetrack known as the circus of Gaius and Nero and had an Egyptian obelisk (now known as the "Vatican Obelisk") transported by sea and erected in the middle of Rome.

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