Roman Legionary Bull Lamp Italy Julia Gens Augustan Legions of Caesar Grand Tour

Description

This Roman Red bronze oil lamp with three bulls heads, is a direct copy taken off the original ancient oil lamp artifact during the Grand Tour.  The Bull was a symbol of ancient Italy and of the Julia Gens and of all Augustan Legions.
Roman legions raised by both Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar took the Bull as their first symbol due to it's relation to the Julia (gens) worship of Venus.
Ancient Italy also took the Bull as it's symbol which is evident during the Social Wars between Rome and her Italian Allies.  The Italian Allied cities minted a coin showing the Italian Bull goring the Roman she wolf between 91-88 BC.  They were fighting to have equal rights with the city of Rome, which they eventually got.
The gens Julia or Iulia was one of the most ancient patrician families at Ancient Rome. Members of the gens attained the highest dignities of the state in the earliest times of the Republic. The first of the family to obtain the consulship was Gaius Julius Iulus in 489 BC. The gens is perhaps best known, however, for Gaius Julius Caesar, the dictator and grand uncle of the emperor Augustus, through whom the name was passed to the so-called Julio-Claudian dynasty of the 1st century AD.  The gens Julia claimed they were decedents of the god Venus.
To see just how much influence this one Roman family had, see...
Julia (gens) in
Wikipedia
and be amazed.