Tetrarchs – Porphyry Roman Emperors Embracing, St Mark's Venice | 3D Print STL

Roman emperors carved from Egyptian porphyry, the purple stone reserved for rulers, and a piece of Constantinople that ended up in Venice. Around AD 300 the Roman Empire was ruled by four emperors at once, the Tetrarchy of Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus. This famous sculpture shows them in two embracing pairs with matching faces, Pannonian caps and hands on eagle-headed swords: a picture of unity in stone. It most likely stood in Constantinople until the Fourth Crusade s…

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