Portland Vase
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The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, which dates between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support. It is the best known piece of Roman cameo glass and has served as an
Portland Vase BM Gem 4036 n 1
Portland Vase BM Gem 4036 n 5
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Detail, with the figure who might be Octavian
Cameo (carving)
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Cameo is a method of carving an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel. It nearly always features a raised relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. Origin
Portland Vase
…about 25 centimetres (9.8 in) high and 18 cm (7.1 in) in diameter. It is made of violet-blue glass, and surrounded with a single continuous white glass cameo making two distinct scenes, depicting seven human figures, plus a large snake, and two bearded and horned heads below the handles, marking the break…
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Perfume bottle made of cameo glass found in the Roman necropolis of Ostippo (Spain). On side B shown above, two males are on a bed in an erotic scene. Side A of the bottle, not shown, shows a female and a male in an erotic scene. 25 BCE – 14 CE