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Title:Carnelian oval set in a 17th–18th century gold ring
Artist:Signed by Gnaios
Period:Early Imperial, Augustan
Date:ca. 27 BCE–14 CE
Culture:Roman
Medium:Carnelian
Dimensions:3/4 × 5/8 in. (1.9 × 1.6 cm)
Classification:Gems
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1910
Object Number:10.110.1
Inscription: "Gnaios"
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Draper, James David. 2008. "Cameo Appearances." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 65(4): p. 7, fig. 2.
Picón, Carlos A. and Seán Hemingway. 2016. Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World no. 263, p. 312, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Lapatin, Kenneth. 2021. "The Getty Gnaios : A Love Story." Journal of the History of Collections, 33: pp. 3–4, 14 n. 12, fig. 3.
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