“Gemma Claudia”
Five-layered onyx; setting: gold band.Ca. 49 CE.
Height 12 cm. Inv. No. IXa 63.Vienna, Museum of Art History
“Gemma Claudia”.
Five-layered onyx; setting: gold band.
Ca. 49 CE.
Height 12 cm.
Ca. 49 CE.
Height 12 cm.
Inv. No. IXa 63.
Vienna, Museum of Art History
(Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum).
Description:
On the left of “Cameo of Claudius” emperor Claudius and his wife Agrippina Younger, on the right — Germanicus, the valorous commander adopted by Tiberius, with his wife Agrippina the Elder are represented.
Credits:
© 2006. Photo, text: A Brief Guide to the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Edited by Wilfried Seipel. Vol. 4. Masterpieces in the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Kunsthistorisches Museum. SKIRA, 2006, p. 184—185, cat. 79.
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