Category:Limyra Cenotaph Gaius Caesar

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Sculptural work from the cenotaph ( a monument for someone who died but is not buried at the spot of the cenotaph) of Gaius Caesar, grandson and adopted child of Emperor Augustus. He died in Limyra in 4 AD after having been wounded during a battle in Armenia. He was buried in Rome in the mausoleum of Augustus, the Limyrans erected a cenotaph. In a Limyra sculptures part of the museum of archaeology in Antalya