THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Portraiture | Male portrait | Gems
1. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Octavian August.
Marble.
Arles, Museum of Ancient Arles.
2. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Germanicus.
Sardonyx; restorations in gold not original.
Ca. 4—14 CE.
Inv. No. 98.753.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
3. 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.
4. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Tiberius.
Layered carnelian.
14—37 CE.
Inv. No. 98.757.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
5. GLYPTICS. Rome.
August.
1st cent. CE with a 17th cent. setting.
Inv. No. 70.3.
Cologne, Romano-Germanic Museum.
6. GLASS. Rome.
Sculptural portrait of the emperor Augustus.
Glass.
First half of the 1st century CE, possibly, somewhat after.
Inv. No. 64.33.
Cologne, Romano-Germanic Museum.
7. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Head of Augustus.
Chalcedony, sardonyx, gold.
Julio-Claudian period.
Inv. No. 14522.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
8. 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.
9. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Octavian.
Sardonyx-onyx.
Inv. No. 25876.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
10. GLYPTICS. Rome.
The “Cameo of Augustus”.
Carver agate.
Beginning of the 1st cent. CE.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
11. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Herm of Vergilius.
Marble.
Inv. No. S 505.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Gallery.
12. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Drusus the Younger.
Glass.
Rome. 1st century CE.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
13. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Nero Caesar.
Two-layered onyx.
Rome. 1st century.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
14. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Augustus.
On the back is a bust of a Negro, carved in the Renaissance.
Sardonyx.
Rome. 1st century BCE.
Inv. No. K-4938.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
15. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Julian the Apostate.
Chalcedony.
4th century.
Inv. No. Ω 80.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
16. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Julian the Apostate.
Chalcedony.
4th century.
Inv. No. Ω 80.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
17. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Julian the Apostate.
Chalcedony.
4th century.
Inv. No. Ω 80.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
18. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Julian the Apostate.
Chalcedony.
4th century.
Inv. No. Ω 80.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
19. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Constantine the Great and Tyche of Constantinople.
Sardonyx.
Rome. 4th century.
Reworked in the 19th century by the master Benedetto Pistrucci (1784—1855).
Inv. Nos. ГР-12534 / Ж 146.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
20. GLYPTICS. Rome.
August, Livia and Nero.
Sardonyx.
Rome. 1st century.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12537 / Ж 149.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.