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"tombstone": "Cameo: Julio-Claudian Imperial Portrait, 30 BCE\u201354 CE. Italy, Rome, Early Imperial period. Travertine; overall: 4.6 x 6.4 cm (1 13/16 x 2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1991.154",
"current_location": "103 Roman",
"title": "Cameo: Julio-Claudian Imperial Portrait",
"creation_date": "30 BCE\u201354 CE",
"creation_date_earliest": -30,
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"culture": [
"Italy, Rome, Early Imperial period"
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"department": "Greek and Roman Art",
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"type": "Sculpture",
"measurements": "Overall: 4.6 x 6.4 cm (1 13/16 x 2 1/2 in.)",
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"did_you_know": "The Julio-Claudian family included the first five emperors of Rome: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.",
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"description": "This fragment of a cameo depicts a man wearing a laurel crown and facing right. Roman cameo gems were made by carving through layers of banded semiprecious stones to create an image, here a portrait in off-white with a tan background. Scholars have identified this portrait as various members of the Julio-Claudian imperial family based on the laurel crown and style of the portrait.
The close-cropped wavy hair, thinly arched brow, aquiline nose, and rounded chin are similar to depictions of many Julio-Claudian princes and emperors who can only be differentiated by inscriptions. The imperial family was represented with very similar features to support a unified dynastic image.",
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"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1991.154-cameo-with-portrait",
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1991.154-cameo-julio-claudian"
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"citation": "Safani Gallery (New York, N.Y.). The Art of Rome: An Exhibition of Sculpture, Wall Paintings, Bronzes, Jewelry, and Glasses of the Roman Period, Dec. 2, 1983-Jan. 14, 1984. Safani Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1983.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced p. 15",
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},
{
"citation": "Hausmann, Ulrich. \"Bemerkungen zum \"Dritten\" Portrat-Typus des Tiberius\" in Numismatica e antichita\u0300 classiche, Quaderni ticinesi, Vol. 14.1985. p. 211-225.",
"page_number": "Mentioned p. 224, reproduced pl IV, no. 4",
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{
"citation": "Henig, Martin. The Content Family Collection of Ancient Cameos. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 1990.",
"page_number": "Ref. p. 108",
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},
{
"citation": "Platz-Horster, Gertrud. Nil und Euthenia: der Kalzitkameo im Antikenmuseum Berlin. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1992.",
"page_number": "pp. 8-9, fig. 5.",
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},
{
"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Selected 1991 Acquisitions.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 66; Mentioned: p. 76",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350"
},
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"citation": "Hausmann, Ulrich. \"\u00dcberlegungen zum Germanicus-Portr\u00e4t\" in Mitteilungen Des Deutschen Arch\u00e4ologischen Instituts, R\u00f6mische Abteilung. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, Vol. 103. 1996. p.139-164.",
"page_number": "Reproduced Plate 42, fig 4. Mentioned p. 149.",
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"citation": "DeSilva, David A. An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2004.",
"page_number": "Cover image and p. 57, fig. 2.4.",
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}
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