‘Blacas Cameo’, sardonyx, Augustus, AD 14-20 An unusually large Roman cameo. Carved from
‘Blacas Cameo’, sardonyx, Augustus, AD 14-20 An unusually large Roman cameo. Carved from a large piece of sardonyx, with layers of white and brown. Augustus is shown as being a young man. His appearance has been idealised (in comparison to literary descriptions of him) -- source link