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Glyptics | Rome | Cameos
21. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Dionysian scene.
Cameo. Sardonyx-agate.
Inv. No. 25836.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
22. GLYPTICS. Greece.
Athena and Poseidon.
Cameo.
Sardonyx-onyx.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 25837.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
23. 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.
24. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Head of Hercules.
Cameo. Sardonyx-onyx. 27 BCE — 14 CE.
Inv. No. 25851.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
25. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Octavian.
Sardonyx-onyx.
Inv. No. 25876.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
26. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Satyr with the child Dionysus.
Cameo.
Sardonyx-agate.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 25880.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
27. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Centaur.
Cameo. Sardonyx. 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 25889.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
28. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Female bust with a branch.
Agate-onyx.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Inv. No. 26775.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
29. 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).
30. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Ring decorated with a cameo with a female profile.
Gold, sardonyx.
Imperial time.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
31. GLYPTICS. Rome.
The “Cameo of Augustus”.
Carver agate.
Beginning of the 1st cent. CE.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
32. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Two Agrippinae represented as Minervae”.
Sardonyx.
Rome, 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 226.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
33. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Cameo of Tiberius” (“Big cameo of France”).
Sardonyx. 37 CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 264.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
34. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Cameo of Tiberius” (so-called “Great Cameo of France”).
Five-layered sardonyx. Ca. 23 CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 264.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
35. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Cameo of Tiberius” (so-called “Great Cameo of France”). The upper register.
Five-layered sardonyx.
Ca. 23 CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 264.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
36. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Cameo of Tiberius” (so-called “Great Cameo of France”). The middle register.
Five-layered sardonyx.
Ca. 23 CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 264.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
37. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Cameo of Tiberius” (so-called “Great Cameo of France”). The lower register.
Five-layered sardonyx.
Ca. 23 CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 264.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
38. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Apotheosis of Claudius”.
Attributed to Skylax.
Sardonyx. Mid-1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 265.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
39. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Claudius”.
Sardonyx. Rome, 41—42 CE.
Golden frame 16th century.
Inv. No. Camee. 269.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
40. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Claudius and Messalina on a chariot”.
Sardonyx. Rome, Mid-1st cent. CE.
Frame made by Josias Belle in 17th cent.
Inv. No. Camee. 276.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.