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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 3502595, member: 82616&quot;]Most of these Grand Tour Roman cameos have a name attached in Latin of the imperial personage depicted. The fact this one is blank probably indicates it&#039;s a generic emperor or Roman.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mary Beards next book will tackle these sorts of questions, it&#039;s about Roman emperors images down through the ages. She did a series of Mellon Lectures on the subject.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s Part 1:</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]PAZ9uGh7PHk[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>The other lectures can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.nga.gov/global-site-search-page.html?searchterm=mary%20beard&amp;category=Audio%2FVideo&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;lastFacet=category" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nga.gov/global-site-search-page.html?searchterm=mary%20beard&amp;category=Audio%2FVideo&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;lastFacet=category" rel="nofollow">https://www.nga.gov/global-site-search-page.html?searchterm=mary beard&amp;category=Audio/Video&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;lastFacet=category</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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