Like Augustus who boasted, “I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble”, we tend to focus on the magnificent marble temples and ideal sculptures of imperial Rome as we immerse ourselves in an aesthetic visual orgy. But Augustus also recognized the value of terracotta as an art form that recalled the very origins of the ancient city and bespoke “Romanness”, choosing to decorate his majestic palace complex the included the Temple of Apollo on the Palatine Hill w