Disk Brooch with Cameo

This cameo repeats a familiar classical type (see figs. 16, 17), but its energetic angular forms are a shorthand approximation of the earlier conception. Like some other nomadic tribes, the Lombards, or Langobards, the Germanic people who
invaded northern Italy in the sixth century, prized Greco-Roman gems of earlier times, both preserving stones and displaying them by having them mounted
in jewelry.

Samuel T. Baxter, Florence (until 1895)

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Catalogue of Etruscan jewellery with some Roman and Langobardic ornaments in the collection of S.T. Baxter. Florence: Claudian Press, 1886. no. 197, p. 19.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, o.s., 10, no. 6 (June 1915). p. 9.

Peirce, Hayford, and Royall Tyler. L'art Byzantin. Vol. 2. Paris: Librarie de France, 1934. pp. 139–40, pl. 208c.

Foltiny, Stephen. "Langobardic Fibulae from Italy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York." Acta Toscana 1 (1974). pp. 28–29, fig. 2.

Brown, Katharine R. Guide to Provincial Roman and Barbarian Metalwork and Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981. p. 24, fig. 37.

Brown, Katharine R. "Two Langobardic Fibulae in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Archeologia Medievale 14 (1987). pp. 447–449, fig. 1.

Brown, Katharine R. Migration Art, A.D. 300-800. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. pp. 13, 33–35, 51, fig. 7.

Brown, Katharine R., Dafydd Kidd, and Charles T. Little, ed. From Attila to Charlemagne: Arts of the Early Medieval Period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. p. 153, 339, fig. 6d, 13.19.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Cameo Appearances." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 65, no. 4 (Spring 2008). p. 17, fig. 26.