the location of Aetius' statue

**Magister Militum Flavius Aetius** · June 15, 2010, 07:42 AM

I've been searching for Aetius' statue for a year now, and I can't find it. Does anyone know where it may be? I know it's in rome.

**Riothamus** · June 15, 2010, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by Magistri Militum FlaviusAetius

I've been searching for Aetius' statue for a year now, and I can't find it. Does anyone know where it may be? I know it's in rome.

This one?

**Magister Militum Flavius Aetius** · June 15, 2010, 08:32 AM

That's the statue? Never seen that picture before.

**wulfgar610** · June 16, 2010, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by Magistri Militum FlaviusAetius

That's the statue? Never seen that picture before.

How could you miss it?

**Dragases** · August 06, 2011, 09:52 PM

I have no knowledge of a surviving statue of Aetius. However, a consular diptych is still preserved in the museum of Bourges (Musée du Berry). For more information, you could check Penny MacGeorge's "Late Roman Warlords" who uses the diptych on the cover of the monograph.

**Riothamus** · August 07, 2011, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Dragases

I have no knowledge of a surviving statue of Aetius. However, a consular diptych is still preserved in the museum of Bourges (Musée du Berry). For more information, you could check Penny MacGeorge's "Late Roman Warlords" who uses the diptych on the cover of the monograph.

Ahh.. I stand corrected. I gave you Diptych of Boethius in the above pic
Thanks Dragases

**Dragases** · August 08, 2011, 08:16 AM

No problem dudes!

**Magister Militum Flavius Aetius** · August 07, 2011, 07:04 AM

Thanks Dragases.

**Magister Militum Flavius Aetius** · August 08, 2011, 01:33 PM

I've seen that image before as well... can't remember where though.

**wulfgar610** · August 08, 2011, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by Magister Militum Flavius Aetius

I've seen that image before as well... can't remember where though.

On the loading screen of Rio's mod!

**Riothamus** · August 08, 2011, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by wulfgar610

On the loading screen of Rio's mod!

Dont think he got that far into the game

**Magister Militum Flavius Aetius** · August 09, 2011, 04:09 PM

hmm... I did a few custom battles and saw some load screens but that's about all, i mean in a book or somehting.

**Valentinian Victor** · August 10, 2011, 07:01 AM

This thread is on par with one I created some where asking if Julian's tomb in Tarsus still exists. Sadly I have a feeling that both Aetius' statue and Julian's tomb have been lost to history, just like so many others.

When I visited Pula in the Istrian Peninsula, Croatia, I was horrified to learn that the Venetian's stole not only practically all the tombs there and transported them back to Venise (Pula was known upto the 15th Century as the 'City of Tombs' because so many Roman tombs and other burials were there), but that they also dismantled a Roman theatre and used the Columns to make St Marks Square, and were in the process of dismantling the ampitheatre when a Venetian senator persuaded this act of vandalism to stop. I've visited the ampitheatre a number of times and its a fantastic place to visit. Sadly very few tombs are there but they can be found dotted around the city.

**Joar** · August 10, 2011, 07:47 AM

I've never heard of a statue of Aëtius.

**Magister Militum Flavius Aetius** · August 10, 2011, 01:14 PM

I think there was a statue (I know there was obviously a relief as posted above) of Aetius, and I know there was one of Merobaudes (the base of which still exists) in the Forum (Traiani?)