cameo
- Museum number
- 1824,0301.55
- Description
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Onyx cameo engraved with a head of Domitia in profile, her hair in curls over her forehead and plaited at the back.
- Production date
- 1stC-2ndC
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.80 centimetres
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Length: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Text from Payne Knight's Latin manuscript catalogue
55) Juliae, Titi Vespasiani imperatoris filiae, caput, facie sinistrorsum spectante, capillis super frontem in cincinnos accuratissime dispositis, et pone in fasciculum religatis in collum dependens, e strato albo opacissimo onychis Indicae alii minus candido et opaco inhaerente exsculptum, arte iam senescente, istius tamen seculi optima.
Translation
The head of Julia, the daughter of emperor Titus Vespasianus, with her face looking to the left, her hair arranged very carefully in curls over her forehead, and hanging down behind bound up in a small bundle onto her neck, carved from a white, very opaque layer of Indian onyx adhering to a less bright and opaque one elsewhere, with the art form declining by this time, nevertheless it is the best of that century.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1824,0301.55