THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Glyptics
1. GLYPTICS. Greece.
Head of Zeus from Olympia.
Cornelian. Second quarter of the 2nd century BCE.
Berlin, State Museums, Collection of Classical Antiquities.
2. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Ring adorned with a cameo depicting a Satyr and a Nymph.
Gold, cornelian, onyx. Ca. 50 BCE — 20 CE.
Inv. Nos. Misc. 7066 / FG 11067.
Berlin, State Museums, Old Museum.
3. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Germanicus.
Sardonyx; restorations in gold not original.
Ca. 4—14 CE.
Inv. No. 98.753.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
4. 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.
5. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Layered carnelian.
14—37 CE.
Inv. No. 98.757.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
6. GLYPTICS. Rome.
A ringstone with Roman carnelian with a male portrait.
Intaglio: carnelian, 1st cent. BCE — 1st cent. CE.
Ring: gold, modern work.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House.
7. GLYPTICS. Greece.
Comic mask.
Three-layered sardonyx in a new gold mount.
2nd—1st cent. BCE.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House, London.
8. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Portrait of Caligula.
Onyx.
37—41 CE.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House, New York.
9. GLYPTICS. Rome.
August.
1st cent. CE with a 17th cent. setting.
Inv. No. 70.3.
Cologne, Romano-Germanic Museum.
10. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Bust of a woman (Agrippina Minor or Drusilla?).
First half of 1st cent. CE (with traces of reworking).
Sardonyx, gold.
Inv. No. 14556.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
11. GLYPTICS. Rome.
The Medici Cameo. Emperor sacrificing to Hope.
Sardonyx, gilded metal.
1st—2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 14443.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
12. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Head of Augustus portrayed as Apollo.
Sardonyx, gold.
3rd-4th decade of the 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 14521.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
13. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Head of Augustus.
Chalcedony, sardonyx, gold.
Julio-Claudian period.
Inv. No. 14522.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
14. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Busts of Tiberius and Livia.
Chalcedony, agate, gold.
14—29 CE.
Inv. No. 14533.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
15. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Head of Livia portrayed as Ceres.
Sardonyx, gold.
20—29 CE.
Inv. No. 14549.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
16. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Portrait of a young man from the Julio-Claudian dynasty (Gaius Caesar? Lucius Caesar? Germanicus?).
Ca. 2 BCE — ca. 4 CE.
Inv. No. 1867,0507.496.
London, British Museum.
17. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Agrippina the Younger.
Sardonyx.
Ca. 57—59 CE.
Inv. No. 1872,0604.1992.
London, British Museum.
18. GLYPTICS. Rome.
A Roman bust of a military man.
Bone.
Ca. 235—250 CE.
Inv. No. 1898,0715.2.
London, British Museum.
19. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Agrippina the Elder.
Sardonyx.
Ca. 37—41 CE.
Inv. No. 1899,0722.2.
London, British Museum.
20. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Portrait of Julia Drusilla, Julia Livilla or Agrippina Minor.
Chalcedony.
37—39 CE.
Inv. No. 1907,0415.1.
London, British Museum.