museums and institutions:
museums and institutions:
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
3. The cameo shown in Fig.2, photographed with transmitted light.
Attributed works:
4. Reverse of the cameo shown in Fig.2.
Attributed works:
5. Reverse of the cameo shown in Fig.1.
Attributed works:
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.
Western art unattributed:
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).
Western art unattributed:
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).
Western art unattributed:
8. Triumph of Dionysus and Ariadne. Roman cameo in later setting.
Sardonyx, 6 by 5.5 cm. (Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
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).
