Titelpagina voor Fasti magistratuum et triumphorvum Romanorum

The central Latin inscription is framed as a monumental stone tablet, topped by the goddess Roma seated upon a rocky outcrop. She is flanked by the river god Father Tiber with his oar and the Capitoline Wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, while a lower frieze depicts a dense crowd of defeated captives and piles of Roman armor. The sides are flanked by 'tropaea', towering decorative arrangements of captured military gear used to signify triumph.

This work represents the 16th-century humanist project to reconstruct the classical past through empirical evidence like numismatics and epigraphy. Hubert Goltzius was a pioneer in using ancient coins and marble inscriptions to verify historical chronologies, a method that applied scientific rigor to the study of antiquity during the Renaissance.