ECL-Bn.14:88-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.14:88-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Cameo
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
The cameo, which is roughly of a wide bell shape, is set in an elaborate rectangular frame. On the cameo are two busts facing the viewer and a third in profile. On right is a male with curly beard and long curly hair and with horns sprouting on his temples. He has a wreath on his hair and wears a scaly aegis over a cuirass. On left is a female with long hair, wearing a diadem and a wreath of corn ears, poppy heads, acorns, cones etc.
Inscribed along the lower edge: Franciscus Viejjra (?) delineavit. Superiorum permissu Romae. Marc.us Ioseph Laupach Pragensis fecit.
Inscribed along the lower edge: Franciscus Viejjra (?) delineavit. Superiorum permissu Romae. Marc.us Ioseph Laupach Pragensis fecit.
Content (object)
bust
Dimensions
height (actual size): 364mm
width (actual size): 484mm
width (actual size): 484mm
Inscription
See Description:
Inscribed along the lower edge: Franciscus Viejjra (?) delineavit. Superiorum permissu Romae. Marc.us Ioseph Laupach Pragensis fecit.
Inscribed along the lower edge: Franciscus Viejjra (?) delineavit. Superiorum permissu Romae. Marc.us Ioseph Laupach Pragensis fecit.
Materials & techniques note
copper engraving on paper