THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Portraiture | Roman Portraiture | Portraits of the Roman emperors and their family and friends | Nero | Claudia Octavia (1st wife of Nero)
1. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo with portrait busts of an Imperial Julio-Claudian couple.
White on brown layered sardonyx.
Mid-1st century CE.
Inv. No. 98.754.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
2. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Claudia Octavia (?), Poppaea Sabina (?), Agrippina Minor (?).
Marble.
54—68 CE.
Inv. No. 124129.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
3. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Claudia Octavia (?), Poppaea Sabina (?), Agrippina Minor (?).
Marble.
54—68 CE.
Inv. No. 124129.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
4. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A female portrait.
Coarse-grained light grey marble.
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 1354.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Chiaramonti Museum, XI. 7.
5. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A female portrait.
Coarse-grained light grey marble.
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 1354.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Chiaramonti Museum, XI. 7.