Comments on: The Wedgwood Portland Vase History And Meaning http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/wedgwood-portland-vase-history-meaning Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Stephen Pollock-hill http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/wedgwood-portland-vase-history-meaning/comment-page-1#comment-2041 Stephen Pollock-hill Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:17:14 +0000 http://blog.worthpoint.com/?p=1935950#comment-2041 I have a new theory. The figures are as follows: 1. Gauis Octavius, father of the future Caesar Augustus 2. Cupid denoting the love between the two figures 3. Atia Balbona Caesonia, (daughter of Julia Ceasaris, sister of Emperor Julius Caesar,mother of the future Caesar Augustus, who dreamt that the God, 4. Apollo, sent a "ketos", or sea serpent to impregnate her ( it is not a snake as it has ears!) 5. Is Gaius Julius Thurinius Octavius, about to become Ceasar "Augustus", seated, powerful, the key figure on the vase, eyes locked with 7. Livia, his third wife, mother of the future Tiberius Ceasar, whom Augustus he met and married within eight weeks, arranging for her then husband to divorce her quickly. 6. This is Scribonia, his second wife who lasted under a year, and has a turned down flame and broken stone blocks symbolising failure of the marriage. It was commissioned as a pices of spin to allow Ceasar to promulgate the fable of his mother's impregantion by Apollo (his favourite deity!), thus giving him divine biological descent! I have a ten page dissertation to propound that the vase was made between 33 and 30BC to meet Caesar Augustus' political ambitions. The engraver is believed to have been a Greek craftsman called Dioskourides who is known to have engraved both Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus in stone or as a cameo in marble. If this theory is true, it explains why the vase was found in am Emperor's grave, and makes the vase fantastically important in the devlopment of Roman history. Let us not forget Caesar Augutus (who ruled as princeps then Emperor at the time of Jesus Christ!)was the most famous of all the emperors and created a "pax romana", a time of peace when Rome flourished as a great civilisation in relative peace, that lasted over two hundred years! I have a new theory. The figures are as follows:
1. Gauis Octavius, father of the future Caesar Augustus
2. Cupid denoting the love between the two figures
3. Atia Balbona Caesonia, (daughter of Julia Ceasaris, sister of Emperor Julius Caesar,mother of the future Caesar Augustus, who dreamt that the God,
4. Apollo, sent a “ketos”, or sea serpent to impregnate her
( it is not a snake as it has ears!)
5. Is Gaius Julius Thurinius Octavius, about to become Ceasar “Augustus”, seated, powerful, the key figure on the vase, eyes locked with
7. Livia, his third wife, mother of the future Tiberius Ceasar, whom Augustus he met and married within eight weeks, arranging for her then husband to divorce her quickly.
6. This is Scribonia, his second wife who lasted under a year, and has a turned down flame and broken stone blocks symbolising failure of the marriage.

It was commissioned as a pices of spin to allow Ceasar to promulgate the fable of his mother’s impregantion by Apollo (his favourite deity!), thus giving him divine biological descent!
I have a ten page dissertation to propound that the vase was made between 33 and 30BC to meet Caesar Augustus’ political ambitions. The engraver is believed to have been a Greek craftsman called Dioskourides who is known to have engraved both Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus in stone or as a cameo in marble.
If this theory is true, it explains why the vase was found in am Emperor’s grave, and makes the vase fantastically important in the devlopment of Roman history.
Let us not forget Caesar Augutus (who ruled as princeps then Emperor at the time of Jesus Christ!)was the most famous of all the emperors and created a “pax romana”, a time of peace when Rome flourished as a great civilisation in relative peace, that lasted over two hundred years!

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