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Susa.The Arch of Augustus originally built at the end of the 1st century BC to record the renewed alliance between Emperor Augustus and Marcus Julius Cottius, a Celto-Ligurian ruler who had been made king and Roman prefect of the Cottian Alps. The man performing the sacrifice is perhaps to be identified with Cottius.

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Susa.The Arch of Augustus originally built at the end of the 1st century BC to record the renewed alliance between Emperor Augustus and Marcus Julius Cottius, a Celto-Ligurian ruler who had been made king and Roman prefect of the Cottian Alps. The man performing the sacrifice is perhaps to be identified with Cottius.