A Roman gold-mounted banded agate cameo pendant

3RD CENTURY A.D.

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A Roman gold-mounted banded agate cameo pendant
3rd Century A.D.
The oval cameo cut in the white layer with a portrait bust of a draped young woman in profile to the right, wearing a 'Helmfrisur' coiffure with a plaited section of hair folded at the nape of the neck, mounted in an oval gold box-setting with border of twisted gold wire S-scrolls with gold granule terminals, with outer openwork border of lotus flowers, the reverse with attachment hook and ribbed loop
1 3/8 in. (3.3 cm.) high excl. hook

Lot Essay

Cf. Trésors des Empereurs d'Autriche: les collections d'antiquités grecques et romaines du Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Vienna, 1994, p. 130, no. 224 for a similarly mounted cameo; and F. H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, The British Museum, London, 1969, p. 339, no. 2867, pl. LXVI.

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