A ROMAN SARDONYX CAMEO OF AUGUSTUS

CIRCA EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN SARDONYX CAMEO OF AUGUSTUS
CIRCA EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Sculpted in three layers, brown on white, on a dark brown ground, with a bust of the Emperor in three-quarter back view, his head in profile to the left, wearing an aegis over his left shoulder with a facing head of Medusa at an angle, a baldric over his right shoulder, a spear projecting to the left, Augustus crowned with a laurel wreath, the ties fluttering behind; mounted as a ring in the original gold setting, the hoop flat on the interior, rounded on the exterior, expanding at the shoulders to the oval bezel
1 in. (2.5 cm.) wide

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Hans von Aulock, Berlin, 1950s-1960s.

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For the pose and iconography compare the sardonyx cameos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 52 in Boardman, The Marlborough Gems, and the British Museum, no. A18 in Megow, Kameen von Augustus bis Alexander Severus. All depict Augustus as a triumphant demigod, as he wears the aegis usually associated with Jupiter or Minerva. Such depictions were likely posthumous, fashioned during the reigns of one of Augustus' successors, after the first Emperor had been deified.