PATER•PATRIÆ

[mostly-history]

The Colchester Vase (c. 175 AD), found in a Roman grave at West Lodge in Colchester (England).

Depicted on the base are four gladiators, with their names inscribed above them: Secundus, Mario, Memnon and Valentinus.

[djezk]

IMPERATOR•TITVS•CÆSAR•VESPASIANVS•AVGVSTVS, PONTIFEX•MAXIMVS, TRIBVNICIÆ•POTESTATIS•XI, IMPERATOR•XVII, CONSVL•VIII, PATER•PATRIÆ

Nîmes, Musée de la Romanité

[djezk]

Dionysos/ Bacchus, god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre 

Nîmes, musée de la Romanité

[djezk]

IMPERATOR•CAESAR•DIVI•FILIVS•AVGVSTVS, PONTIFEX•MAXIMVS, TRIBVNICIAE•POTESTATE•XXXVII, IMPERATOR•XXI, CONSVL•XIII, PATER•PATRIAE

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IMPERATOR•CÆSAR•TRAIANVS•HADRIANVS•AVGVSTVS, PONTIFEX•MAXIMVS, TRIBVNICIÆ•POTESTATIS•XXII, IMPERATOR•II, CONSVL•III, PATER•PATRIÆ. 

[djezk]

IMPERATOR•TITVS•CÆSAR•VESPASIANVS•AVGVSTVS, PONTIFEX•MAXIMVS, TRIBVNICIÆ•POTESTATIS•XI, IMPERATOR•XVII, CONSVL•VIII, PATER•PATRIÆ