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Glyptics | Rome
21. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Venus Victrix.
Intaglio.
Orange carnelian.
1st—2nd cent. CE.
Modena, Galleria Estense.
22. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Childhood of Dionysus.
Cameo. Sardonyx-agate.
Inscription: LAV. R. MED.
Inv. No. 25833.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
23. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Hippolytus, his hunt companion, Phaedra, and nurse.
Cameo. Sardonyx-agate.
Inscription: LAV. R. MED.
Inv. No. 25834.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
24. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Dionysian scene.
Cameo. Sardonyx-agate.
Inv. No. 25836.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
25. GLYPTICS. Greece.
Athena and Poseidon.
Cameo.
Sardonyx-onyx.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 25837.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
26. GLYPTICS. Greece.
Zeus on his quadriga striking the Giants with lightning.
Cameo. Niccolite. 3rd—2nd century BCE.
Signature: ΑΘΗΝΙΩΝ (Athenion).
Inv. No. 25848.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
27. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Head of Hercules.
Cameo. Sardonyx-onyx. 27 BCE — 14 CE.
Inv. No. 25851.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
28. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Octavian.
Sardonyx-onyx.
Inv. No. 25876.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
29. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Satyr with the child Dionysus.
Cameo.
Sardonyx-agate.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 25880.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
30. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Centaur.
Cameo. Sardonyx. 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 25889.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
31. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Apollo, Marsyas and Olympus.
Intaglio.
Carnelian.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Attributed by the engraver Dioskourides.
Inv. No. 26051.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
32. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Antoninus Pius.
2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 26088.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
33. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Apollo Citharaedus.
Intaglio. Cornelian.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Inv. No. 26145.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
34. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Female bust with a branch.
Agate-onyx.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Inv. No. 26775.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
35. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Alexander the Great as Achilles.
Intaglio.
Glaze.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Inv. Nos. 129432 / 158837.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
36. GLYPTICS. Rome.
The artist painting the sculpture.
Carnelian ring stone.
1st—3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 81.6.48.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
37. GLYPTICS. Rome.
The artist painting the sculpture.
Cast.
1st—3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 81.6.48.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
38. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Agrippina the Elder.
Sardonyx. First half of the 1st century.
Inv. No. L.2013.56.13.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (on loan).
39. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Ring decorated with a cameo with a female profile.
Gold, sardonyx.
Imperial time.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
40. GLYPTICS. Rome.
The “Cameo of Augustus”.
Carver agate.
Beginning of the 1st cent. CE.
Paris, Louvre Museum.