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Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia, read 2026-08-18

A Wikipedia article on the so-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, a Late Republican marble monument whose surviving panels are divided between the Louvre and the Glyptothek in Munich. The article describes the Munich mythological frieze, inventory 239, as showing the marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite in a Hellenistic style, the divine couple in a chariot drawn by Tritons and accompanied by Nereids, Doris on a sea-horse bearing wedding torches, Erotes and sea creatures, dated to about 122 to 115 BCE. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for the relief's museum, inventory number and iconography, independently corroborated by a Wikimedia Commons file record photographed at the Glyptothek naming the same inventory number.
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Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar_of_Domitius_Ahenobarbus
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encyclopedia
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Neptune, Deities

This source names Neptune directly: "239, as showing the marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite in a Hellenistic style, the divine couple in a chariot drawn by Tritons and accompanied by Nereids, Doris on a sea-horse bearing wedding..."

Source Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus (Wikipedia)
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Alternate Currents: Reiki's Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific
Justin B. Stein, University of Hawaii Press, 2023
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)

This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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