CARACALLA
ANCIENT EVIDENCE
The sole reign of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, known as Caracalla, 211-217 AD.
Buildings, works of art, inscriptions, coins, papyri, laws, ancient authors.
Introduction
[Caracalla and his family]
His name
His wife, Plautilla
His posterity
His father, Septimius Severus
His brother, Geta
His mother, Julia Domna
[In art]
Portraits
Coins and medallions
Cameos and intaglios
[In Rome]
The transition to the sole reign
The Temple of Serapis
The Baths of Caracalla: the building
The Baths of Caracalla: sculpture
The Baths of Caracalla: mosaics
The Baths of Caracalla: bathtubs and latrine
The Baths of Caracalla: architectural decoration
[The north-western empire]
Gaul
The Iberian peninsula
Britain
[The Rhine area]
Dates
His health
Forts and roads
[The lower Danube area]
Dates
Noricum and Pannonia
Dacia and Moesia
Thracia and Greece
[The East]
Asia Minor: the non-literary evidence
Asia Minor: Pergamum and Ephesus
Syria: Antiochia and Apamea
Egypt: Alexandria
Egypt outside Alexandria
Osrhoene, Armenia, Parthia
The assassination
[North Africa]
Roads and the frontier
Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Libya
[Laws]
The Constitutio Antoniniana
Other laws
[Ostia]
The Arch of Caracalla
(external link)
The Shrine of Silvanus
(external link)
[The ancient historians]
Cassius Dio
Herodianus
Aurelius Victor
Historia Augusta
Fragments
[Multimedia]
Lectures
Reconstructions
[Tools]
Itinerary according to Halfmann
Summary of titulature according to Mastino
Bibliography