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    The Blacas Cameo is an unusually large Ancient Roman cameo, 12.8 cm (5.0 in) high, carved from a piece of sardonyx with four alternating layers of white...
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    is a three layer agate. Ptolemaic double cameo — Hellenistic, 278–270/269 BC. Eleven-layered onyx. Blacas Cameo: Roman, about 20–50 AD. This head of Augustus...
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    Louis Charles Pierre Casimir de Blacas d'Aulps, 2nd Duke of Blacas, 2nd Prince of Blacas (15 April 1815, London – 10 February 1866, Venice) was a French...
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    Gemma Claudia (category Roman Empire cameos)
    These include the Gemma Augustea in Vienna, the Great Cameo of France in Paris and the Blacas Cameo in London. Koeppe, Wolfram; Giusti, Anna Maria; Acidini...
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    represented on the statues of Roman emperors, heroes, and warriors, and on coins, cameos and vases. A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great...
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    Gemma Augustea (category Roman Empire cameos)
    inner court circle. Similar issues arise with other Imperial cameos such as the Blacas Cameo in the British Museum. The whereabouts of the gemma were undocumented...
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    Beazley, Archaic period pages Hennig, 154-5. British Museum on the Blacas Cameo of Augustus. Hennig, 153, Boardman, 275-6 Pliny, see below. Whether he...
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    Claudius and his brother with their wives), the Great Cameo of France in Paris, the Blacas Cameo in the British Museum, and the portrait now re-used in...
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    Portland Vase (category Roman Empire cameos)
    gemstone cameos featuring Augustus and his family with divine attributes, such as the Gemma Augustea, the Great Cameo of France and the Blacas Cameo (the...
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    masterpiece of Roman cameo glass, and imitated the style of the large engraved gems (Blacas Cameo, Gemma Augustea, Great Cameo of France) and other hardstone...
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    which depicts him in his role as pontifex maximus. Several cameo portraits include the Blacas Cameo and Gemma Augustea. Augustan and Julio-Claudian art Augustan...
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    images are idealized. In the portraiture of Augustus, for example the Blacas Cameo, he is always shown as a man of perhaps about 35, although some images...
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    of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza Brooch Bronze head of Hypnos...
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    The Blacas Cameo (early 1st century AD), depicting Augustus wearing an aegis...
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    of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza Brooch Bronze head of Hypnos...
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  • book should never go out of print." The objects exhibited included: the Blacas Cameo, the Dunstable Swan Jewel, Royal Gold Cup, Brooch of Lorn, and the Metsys...
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    Bronze head of Augustus (British Museum). Cultural depictions of Augustus Blacas Cameo Roman portraiture British Museum Highlights British Museum Collection...
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  • The Blacas Cameo (20–50 AD) depicting Roman emperor Augustus...
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    near Jerusalem, (5–15 AD) Gladius of Mainz (or "Sword of Tiberius") and Blacas Cameo, depicting Roman emperors in triumph (15 AD) Horse trappings in decorated...
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  • the Villa of the Mysteries of Pompeii, the Head of Augustus and the Blacas Cameo in the British Museum, and the Ara Pacis in Rome. In the second episode...
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    of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza Brooch Bronze head of Hypnos...
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    era of Tiberius. The Blacas Cameo of Augustus was perhaps made soon after his death. The Gemma Augustea The Gemma Claudia Cameo with the profile of Augustus...
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    of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza Brooch Bronze head of Hypnos...
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    of Milos Barber Cup and Crawford Cup Bassae Frieze Beaurains Treasure Blacas Cameo Boscoreale Treasure Boy with Thorn Braganza Brooch Bronze head of Hypnos...
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