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A crazy cook: Menander’s ‘Fake Herakles’ on a Roman gem
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1217–1221
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Gradel, Ittai (Gradel, Ittai)
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6. Intaglio set into a modern gold ring. Intaglio: Roman, 2nd–1st century BCE. Carnelian, 2.1 by 1.1 cm. (Private collection; photograph Gabriele de Vangelli de Cresci).
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1. Intaglio, shown actual size. Roman, mid- to late 1st century BCE. Carnelian, height 8.5 mm, thickness 1.5 mm. (Private collection; photograph the author).
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2. Fig.1 backlit.
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3. Six-spouted oil lamp featuring New Comedy theatre masks (the maison type is third from the left). Greek, 1st century BCE. Terracotta, 9.3 by 23 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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4. Cast copy of a 1st century BCE Roman intaglio. 18th century. Glass, 2.1 by 1.4 cm. (From E. Zwierlein-Diehl, Glaspasten im Martin-von-Wagner- Museum der Universität Würzburg, Munich 1986, Taf.109, no.604).
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7. Hercules and Omphale. Roman, 54–79 CE. Fresco, 103 by 88 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; Bridgeman Images).
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Opposite 5. Figs.1 and 2, shown enlarged.
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Nothing to do with Menander: a rediscovered Roman cameo from the Caylus Collection
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 546–553
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Gradel, Ittai (Gradel, Ittai)
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1. Illustration of the cameo shown in Fig.2. Engraving. (From Comte de Caylus: Recueil d’antiquités, Paris 1752, I, plate 54).
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14. Plaster reconstruction by Klaus Fittschen of the Vatican Museum Posidippus. (Archäologisches Institut, Göttingen).
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10. Detail of Fig.2. showing the actors’ masks.
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11. Intaglio representing a pornoboskos. Roman. 1st century BCE. Hardstone (sard), 13 by 10 mm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
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12. Detail of Fig.2. showing the herm portrait.
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13. Three views of a plaster cast of the Geneva Posidippus. (Archäologisches Institut, Göttingen).
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15. Portrait of Menander. Roman, 1st century CE. Marble, height 34 cm. (Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington).
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2. Cameo. Roman. c.25–50 CE. Sardonyx agate, 3.2 by 2.44 cm. (Private collection).
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3. Impression of Fig.7 (British Museum, London).
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4. Impression of Fig.8 (British Museum, London).
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5. Impression of Fig.9 (British Museum, London).
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6. The cameo shown in Fig.2, 3.2 by 2.44 cm.
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7. Intaglio depicting comic actors. 1st century BCE or 18th century CE. Hardstone (sard), 2 by 1.6 cm. (British Museum, London).
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8. Intaglio depicting comic actors. Roman. 1st century BCE. Glass, 1.15 by 1.6 cm. (British Museum, London).
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9. Intaglio depicting comic actors. Roman. 1st century CE. Hardstone (carnelian), 1.1 by 1.4 cm. (British Museum, London).
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A tale of two fragments: a Sostratos cameo reconstructed
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 181-187
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Gennaioli, Riccardo (Gennaioli, Riccardo)
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Gradel, Ittai (Gradel, Ittai)
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1. Fragment of a cameo, by Sostratos. Hellenistic, mid- to late 1st century BC. Sardonyx, 3.1 by 2.1 cm. excluding the later setting. (Private collection, London).
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10. Dionysus (or Ariadne?) in a chariot pulled by two centaurs. Roman cameo in later, eighteenth-century setting. Sardonyx, 3.1 by 2.3 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
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2. Fragment of a cameo, by Sostratos. Hellenistic, mid- to late 1st century BC. Sardonyx, width 5.5 cm maximum, excluding the later restoration. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence).
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3. The cameo shown in Fig.2, photographed with transmitted light.
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4. Reverse of the cameo shown in Fig.2.
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5. Reverse of the cameo shown in Fig.1.
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6. Scans of the fragments shown in Figs.1 and 2 combined, showing the outline of the original cameo, presuming an oval shape. The resulting original size would have been approx. 6.4 by 4.6 cm.
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11. Dionysus and Ariadne in a chariot pulled by two centaurs. Roman cameo in later setting. Sardonyx, 3 by 2.5 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence).
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7. Fragment of a cameo, with the roughly original outline of the complete cameo restored, presuming a regular oval shape. Hellenistic, mid- to late 1st century BC. Sardonyx, 2.6 by 2 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples).
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8. Triumph of Dionysus and Ariadne. Roman cameo in later setting. Sardonyx, 6 by 5.5 cm. (Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris).
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9. Dionysus (or Ariadne?) in a chariot pulled by two centaurs. Roman cameo in later, eighteenth-century setting. Sardonyx, 4.2 by 2.7 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).