Cameo of Emperor Galba
![Photograph of oval cameo depicting a male figure in profile. The face and hair ribbons are white; the rest of the cameo a varied brownish red. The cameo is set in a decorative gold frame.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/berthouville/objects/cameo-camee-251/@@images/63f0f86a-58a3-4da2-8b81-e0543fcd0471.png)
Cameo of Emperor Galba Set in Seventeenth-Century Mount
- Medium:
- Sardonyx; gold mount
- Dimensions:
- H. 8.8 cm; L. 6.5 cm
- Context:
- Rome, mounted in Paris
- Date:
- Roman, 68 CE
- Inventory Number:
- Camée.251
- Lender:
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Serge Oboukhoff © BnF-CNRS-Maison Archéologie & Ethnologie, René-Ginouvès