Augustus
On the back is a bust of a Negro, carved in the Renaissance.
Sardonyx.
Rome. 1st century BCE.
3.1 × 2.3 cm.
Inv. No. K-4938.Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum

Augustus.

On the back is a bust of a Negro, carved in the Renaissance.
Sardonyx.
Rome. 1st century BCE.
3.1 × 2.3 cm.
Inv. No. K-4938.

Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum
(Санкт-Петербург, Государственный Эрмитаж).

Credits:
© 1994 Photo, text: O. Neverov, Antichnye kamei, “Iskusstvo-SPB”, SPb, 1994. S. 116—117, cat. 46.
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