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Skyphos cup of Augustus on a military campaign, seated and surrounded by his lictors and lieutenants as he grants clemency to suppliant barbarians. The alternate side of the Skyphos depicts Augustus among Gods such as Venus, Cupid and Mars, who represent four conquered provinces.
Skyphos cup of Tiberius on a triumphal procession through the streets of Rome. The emperor-to-be rides in a horse-drawn chariot holding a laurel branch and an eagle-tipped scepter. The alternate side of the Skyphos depicts Tiberius sacrificing a bull in front of a temple to Jupiter.
Two silver cups decorated with skeletons. The two silver cups have similar and complementary repoussé decoration depicting the skeletons of tragic and comic poets and famous Greek philosophers, beneath a garland of roses. Greeks philosophers, Sophocles and Mosco, Epicurus and Zeno, who recite these verses: "Life is a theater", "Enjoy it while you are alive ”,“ Pleasure is the supreme good ”.
Pair of kantharoi with squatting boar in relief.
Two dishes. Pair of dishes with relief medallions of the busts of a man and women (although only the bust of the latter survives)
Plate with the central medallion showing the personification of Africa. In the center is a bust of a young woman wearing an elephant hide cap, holding an asp in her right hand and a cornucopia of plenty full of fruit in her left. The symbolism of the objects around the woman and her facial features strongly suggest that it is a posthumous portrait of Cleopatra Selene II, Queen of Mauretania, wife of Juba II, and daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and most likely commissioned by Ptolemy of Mauretania, son of Cleopatra Selene II (shortly after her death in 6/5 BC).
A polished toiletry mirror with a brilliant reflection, practically this was used to view oneself, the decoration represents the meeting of Leda and Jupiter, turned into a swan, and is a hymn to femininity and sensuality.
Stemless silver cup with gilded central boss and bands of lotus leaves dating from 300 BC.
Pair of silver laterals, with vegetal decoration
Double gold chain (catenary), with links, called simple column links 2 , having served as an ornament for the chest and the bust. One of the two chains is made up of 284 links; the other has only 272. Despite this difference (12 links) there is only a difference of 0.01 in the length of the two chains. An up-to-date ornament, in the shape of a wheel with eight spokes, that is to say a wheel, provided, on the reverse, with four small rings symmetrically welded on the flat of the rims, and in which are taken the first and the last link of the two chains, serves, for each one, as point of departure and arrival. A second wheel, exactly similar, except that it is provided, on the reverse and in the direction of the diameter, with two flat rings in which
Gold bracelet (armilla), in the shape of a serpent coiled twice on itself and opening its mouth. The movement of the head is that of an animal preparing to attack. The avant-corps is chiseled with the intention of rendering exactly the details of the skin; the tail is also chiseled; the middle of the body is completely united. The eyes are made of green paste. The bracelet is hollow.
Gold bracelet, in the shape of a snake.
Gold bracelet (armilla), composed of aligned half-spheres, linked together, two by two, by rings. The half-spheres, twenty-two in number, form two superimposed rows each comprising eleven plain gold pieces. Each half-sphere of the upper row is welded to that which corresponds to it in the lower row, so as to present, one above the other, like the two halves of the same sphere; the point of junction of these two halves is hidden by a small double twist, having the appearance of a necklace. We can say that the bracelet is actually made up of eleven spheres cut in half, the halves of which present their rounded sides, lightly welded to one another. The flat sides, the hollows of which were originally filled with a yellowish-gray putty which disintegrated over time and which has almost everywhere disappeared, constitute the inner face of the bracelet. Each of these spheres is provided, on the right with two small rings, on the left with a completely closed double hook, but arranged in such a way that it can play very freely. This arrangement, forming a hinge, gives the bracelet great flexibility. The bottom of the key is twisted in the shape of a small open handle. In terms of modern silversmithing, this closure, still in use, bears the name of “bayonet closure”. It is supported by two rectangular plaited attachment plates, welded to the ends of the jewel, one on the first, the other on the last sphere; a small ring, also braided, fills the void between the attachment plate and the point of welding of the two halves of the sphere; five tiny balls in relief complete the ornamentation.
Gold bracelet (armilla), composed of half-spheres.
Pair of gold ear pendants with glass ornaments. They are formed of a hollow ring, strongly swollen at the lower part; three washers have been removed from the thickness of the gold leaf, and replaced by pieces of shiny green beads, roughly imitating emerald; these pieces of glassware are probably supported on the inside by colored putty. A hook, in the form of a wire folded twice on itself, is used to suspend the earring. At the base of the hook, where it is welded to the ring, a fourth piece of beads, similar to the first, is set in a small, rounded box. Weight of each pendant, 5 gr.
Gold ring (anulus). Plein, oval shape. On the bezel is line-engraved accompanied by two small circles.
Created and uploaded by C. Gazdac (Nov. 2022).
