cameo
- Museum number
- 1824,0301.62
- Description
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Sardonyx cameo engraved with the head of an Amazon in profile, with flowing hair and a Phrygian cap.
- Production date
- 1stC-2ndC
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.20 centimetres
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Length: 2.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Text from Payne Knight's Latin manuscript catalogue
62) Luni dei caput mitratum et diademate radiato cinctum radiis deorsum super frontem vergentibus, facie sinistrorsum spectante, cum lunulae cornibus hinc inde exstantibus post collum, e strato albescente semipellucido onychis Indicae inter duo pellucida, superius, a quo capilli facti sunt, fuscum, inferius candum, molliter et delicate exsculptum. Fuit olim Musei Borghesiani Romae.
Translation
The head of the god Lunus, turbaned, and crowned with a diadem shining with rays turned down over her forehead, with her face looking to the left, with the horns of a little moon standing out in different directions behind her neck, carved out softly and delicately from a whitening, semi-translucent layer of Indian onyx between two translucent ones, the upper one, the level from which the hair has been made, dark, the lower one a gleaming white. It once belonged to the Museo Borghese in Rome.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1824,0301.62
