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      The sole reign of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, known as Caracalla, 211-217 AD.
      Buildings, works of art, inscriptions, coins, papyri, laws, ancient authors.
Rome, Portus and Ostia on the Tabula Peutingeriana
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
   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