Brooches Jewels :
The Blacas Cameo is an unusually large Ancient Roman cameo, 12.8 cm high, carved from a piece of sardonyx with 4 alternating layers of tan and brown. It shows the profile of the Roman emperor Augustus & dates from after his death in AD 14. It has been in the British Museum since 1867, when the museum acquired the famous collection of antiquities from the Duke of Blacas. It is one of a group of spectacular imperial engraved gems, sometimes called “State Cameos”,
