Early Imperial Roman Banded Agate Cameo of a Laureate Male Head

The youthful head faces left, he wears a fillet tied at the back of his neck. Possibly Apollo. Set in an early 20th Century gold ring.

Julio Claudian, early 1st Century AD

Height: 12 mm. (0 1/2 in.)

#5745

Ex: private American collection, by the mid 1980’s.

Exhibited: BRAFA Art Fair. (Brussels, 26 Jan- 2 Feb 2020)

Comparandum:Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg acc. no. GR-12486