THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Portraiture | Male portrait | Gems
21. GLYPTICS. Rome.
August, Livia and Nero.
Sardonyx.
Mid-1st century.
Reworked twice: in the fifties of the 3rd century and during the Renaissance period.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12537 / Ж 149.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
22. GLYPTICS. Egypt.
Alexander the Macedonian.
Sardonyx.
Alexandria (?). 3rd century BCE.
Inv. No. ГР-12672.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
23. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Sardonyx.
Early 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 266.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
24. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Sardonyx.
1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 266.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
25. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Fragment of a blue glass phalera.
Early 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 272.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
26. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Two-layered onyx.
Rome. 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 276.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
27. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Onyx.
Early 1st century. Reworked in the 16th century.
Inv. No. Ж 276.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
28. GLYPTICS. Egypt.
Antiochus I (?).
Sardonyx.
3rd century BCE.
Inv. No. Ж 285.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
29. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Annius Verus.
Chalcedony.
Roman, 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. Ж 364.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
30. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Gemma Claudia”.
Five-layered onyx; setting: gold band.
Ca. 49 CE.
Inv. No. IXa 63.
Vienna, Museum of Art History.
31. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Gemma Claudia”.
Five-layered onyx; setting: gold band.
Ca. 49 CE.
Inv. No. IXa 63.
Vienna, Museum of Art History.
32. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Gemma Claudia”. Claudius and Agrippina the Younger (detail).
Five-layered onyx; setting: gold band.
Ca. 49 CE.
Inv. No. IXa 63.
Vienna, Museum of Art History.
33. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Gemma Claudia”. Germanicus Julius Caesar and Agrippina the Elder (detail).
Five-layered onyx; setting: gold band.
Ca. 49 CE.
Inv. No. IXa 63.
Vienna, Museum of Art History.