Ancient Aenona, once a Liburnian center turned into a Roman city situated on the eastern Adriatic coast, constitutes a significant historical part of the city of Nin today. In the last few decades of the 1st century BC, during the reign of Emperor Augustus, Aenona was granted the status of a municipality which led to its transformation into an important urban, political and cultural Roman center. Under Roman authority the city was introduced to the Roman legal system, the city's architecture started to change in accordance with the Roman construction principles, and the society accepted the new form of religion and power. With the latter began the process of securing the Roman rule by establishing the Roman imperial cult within the community. One of the most distinct examples of the imperial cult in Aenona is represented by the group of imperial statues found during archaeological excavations in the 18th century in the forum area in the northwest part of the city. The majority of the excavated material represents the Julio-Claudian dynasty with the rest belonging to the Flavian dynasty. Seven statues remain today, two of which depict emperors Augustus and Tiberius, while the rest are acephalous or were only preserved in large fragments. Furthermore, several portraits have been found. One depicts emperor Nerva whose image was resculpted from a portrait of emperor Domitian, while the others show emperors Claudius and Caligula. There is one portrait of Marcus Agrippa whose provenance is not entirely certain. Most of these statues are now being kept in the Archaeological museum in Zadar.