Augustus: The Blacas Cameo

Published at 750 × 1016 in Defacing the Past (2017)

The Divine Augustus (The Blacas Cameo), three-layered sardonyx cameo with later (medieval?) jewelled diadem, 14-20 AD, British Museum, London © The Trustees of the British Museum

British Museum, inv. 1867,0507.484

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