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2721. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Germanicus.
Sardonyx. Early 1st century.
2.4 × 1.7 cm.
Inv. No. Ж 261.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2722. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Livia. Fragment of the cameo.
Sardonyx. Late 1st century BCE — early 1st century CE.
2.7 × 2 cm.
Reworked in the eighteenth century.
Inv. No. Ж 262.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2723. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Germanicus.
Sardonyx. Early 1st century.
2.4 × 1.7 cm.
Inv. No. Ж 265.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2724. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Sardonyx.
Early 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 266.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2725. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Sardonyx.
1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 266.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2726. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Livia.
Sardonyx.
Early 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 267.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2727. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Livia.
Sardonyx.
Rome. 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 267.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2728. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Sardonyx.
Early 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 269.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2729. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Fragment of a blue glass phalera.
Early 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 272.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2730. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Drusus the Elder and Antonia (?).
Later inscripton: Ἀλφήος συν Ἀρεθῶνι (Gem of Alpheos and Arethon).
Sardonyx. Late 1st century BCE.
Inv. No. Ж 273.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2731. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Two-layered onyx.
Rome. 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 276.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2732. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Onyx.
Early 1st century. Reworked in the 16th century.
Inv. No. Ж 276.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2733. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Lucilla (?).
Sardonyx. Late 2nd century.
2.3 × 1.9 cm.
Inv. No. Ж 329.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2734. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Vespasian.
Amethyst. Late 1st century.
1.8 × 1.2 cm.
Inv. No. Ж 337.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2735. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Commodus.
Sardonyx. Late 2nd century.
5.3 × 6.1 cm.
Inv. No. Ж 340.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2736. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Commodus.
Sardonyx. Late 2nd century.
1.8 × 1.6 cm.
On the reverse is a cabbalistic inscription with the names of Moses, Joseph, Michael, Shinshiel and Horuel.
Inv. No. Ж 341.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2737. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Agrippina the Elder, the wife of Germanicus.
Sardonyx. Early 1st century.
5.9 × 4.7 cm.
Inv. No. Ж 343.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2738. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Julia, the daughter of the emperor Titus.
Glass paste. Late 1st century.
5.6 × 4 cm.
Inv. No. Ж 344.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2739. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Caracalla.
Sardonyx. Early 3rd century.
4.3 × 3.7 cm.
Inv. No. Ж 345.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2740. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Caracalla.
Sardonyx. Roman, 3rd century.
4.3 × 3.7 cm.
Inv. No. Ж. 345.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.