A ROMAN AGATE CAMEO WITH HERCULES, oval, with brown and white layers, showing the nude hero perhaps in the Garden of the Hesperides, standing beside a leafy tree, with lion skin draped over his left arm, holding up an apple(?) in his right hand, in modern gold ring setting, circa 1st Century A.D.

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A ROMAN AGATE CAMEO WITH HERCULES, oval, with brown and white layers, showing the nude hero perhaps in the Garden of the Hesperides, standing beside a leafy tree, with lion skin draped over his left arm, holding up an apple(?) in his right hand, in modern gold ring setting, circa 1st Century A.D.
cameo ¾in. (1.9cm.) long
Finger size M½

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