Details
11516 in. (4.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965), Rome, acquired and brought to Switzerland, late 1930s; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.
Literature
J. Boardman and C. Wagner, Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present, London, 2018, p. 256, no. 240.
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This three-layer cameo, dark brown over white over brown, is sculpted in high relief with two antelope fighting, their heads overlapping. Although Sangiorgi considered this an Alexandrian work, Boardman and Wagner consider this to be Medieval or later in date.

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