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LOT 0090
Roman Sardonyx Cameo of an Eagle
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
5/8 in. (0.65 grams, 16 mm).
With a cameo image of a bird, probably an eagle, facing left; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
ProvenancePrivate English collection, formed between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12950-246450.
Cf. Gołyźniak, P., Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus, Oxford, 2020, fig.131b, for a similar (but not identical) eagle on gemstone.
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