abstract:Tondo of the Severan family, with portraits of Septimius Severus, Julia Domna, Caracalla, and Geta. Geta's face has been erased, because of the damnatio memoriae ordered by his brother.
Damnatiomemoriae, or dishonoring someone by removing him from remembrance, isunique in Romanhistoryandclosely related to the cultureofhonor in Roman tradition.