Colossus of Nero

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Descripcion foto: The Colossus of Nero was a 30-meter (98 ft) bronze statue that Emperor Nero (37–68 AD) created in the vestibule of his Domus Aurea, his imperial villa complex. Shortly after Nero's death in AD 68, Emperor Vespasian added a radiate crown and renamed it Colossus Solis, after the Roman sun god Sol. Around 128, Emperor Hadrian ordered the statue moved from the Domus Aurea to just northwest of the Colosseum. 24 elephants were used for this purpose. Emperor Commodus converted it into a statue of himself as Hercules by replacing the head, but after his death, it was restored, and so it remained. It was possibly destroyed during the Sack of Rome in 410, or toppled in one of a series of fifth-century earthquakes, and its metal scavenged. According to one theory, the name of the Roman amphitheater, the Colosseum, is derived from this statue.

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