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Glass cameo panel
Glass cameo panel
Artist : Anonymous

Model : Acanthe
Aigle

Date : approx. between 1 and 25

Material : Cameo glass
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1918)
Dynastie Julio-Claudienne
Item 26 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Accessory of architecture (Panneau)

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Empire romain



Description   

The fragments belongs to an elaborate acanthus frieze that probably inhabited by various animals and birds. An eagle survives. The panel was probably made in Rome and echoes the floral ornaments that decorated public monuments set up in the Augustan age.

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Glass cameo panel
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