Cameo of Jupiter
![Photograph of oval cameo depicting a standing, bearded male figure with an eagle at his feet. The figure holds a long staff vertically in one hand and a thunderbolt, at which he gazes, in the other. The cameo is set in an elaborate frame of gold and enamel.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/berthouville/objects/cameo-camee-1/@@images/e2309bfa-eade-4983-afe4-b985fcc88ab5.png)
Cameo of Jupiter (The Cameo of Chartres) Set in Fourteenth-Century Mount
- Medium:
- Sardonyx; gold and enamel mount
- Dimensions:
- H. 15.2 cm; L. 6.5 cm
- Context:
- Rome, mounted in Paris
- Date:
- Roman, ca. 50 CE
- Inventory Number:
- Camée.1
- Lender:
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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