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Lot Essay
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L. Curtius, 'Nero Claudius Drusus der Ältere,' Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung 50, 1935, p. 260, pl. 29,2.
A. Alföldi, Römische Porträtmedaillons aus Glas. Ur-Schweiz 15, 1951, p. 72, VI, 2, pl. III,1-2.
J. M. C. Toynbee, Transactions Essex Archaeological Society 25, 1955, p. 19.
Z. Kiss, L’iconographie des princes julio-claudiens au temps d’Auguste et de Tibère, 1975, p. 106, note 108, fig. 365.
D. Boschung, 'Römische Glasphalerae mit Porträtbüsten,' Bonner Jahrbücher 187, 1987, p. 232, no. 3.
K. Dahmen, Untersuchungen zu Form und Funktion kleinformatiger Porträts der römischen Kaiserzeit, Paderborm, 2001, p. 215, 31,3.
For an identical phalera in translucent green glass see D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum, Vol. I, New York, 1997, pp. 26-27, no. 21. These phalerae were divided into types by Alföldi in 1951 - Type VI being the single head of Tiberius. Boschung (ibid, pp. 232-234) attributed this portrait to Tiberius, and suggested that the entire group was made in a single mould. As well as the Corning example, and another in the Vindonissa Museum, Brugg, the Sangiorgi example above is the only other complete Tiberius phalera known.
See D. B. Harden, Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, pp. 22-23, no. 2, for a similar glass paste phalera with Tiberius, Germanicus and Drusus the Younger. As Harden explains, "the medallion belongs to a closely-related group of glass objects that is associated with attempts to promote various members of the imperial family after the death of Augustus....The medallions were probably issued in sets of nine as parade decorations (dona militaria) to soldiers and were worn as phalerae on the breast-plate". For another two fragmentary phalerae of Tiberius with Drusus and Germanicus, see inv. nos 1923,0401.1158 and 1867,0507.499 in the British Museum.
L. Curtius, 'Nero Claudius Drusus der Ältere,' Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung 50, 1935, p. 260, pl. 29,2.
A. Alföldi, Römische Porträtmedaillons aus Glas. Ur-Schweiz 15, 1951, p. 72, VI, 2, pl. III,1-2.
J. M. C. Toynbee, Transactions Essex Archaeological Society 25, 1955, p. 19.
Z. Kiss, L’iconographie des princes julio-claudiens au temps d’Auguste et de Tibère, 1975, p. 106, note 108, fig. 365.
D. Boschung, 'Römische Glasphalerae mit Porträtbüsten,' Bonner Jahrbücher 187, 1987, p. 232, no. 3.
K. Dahmen, Untersuchungen zu Form und Funktion kleinformatiger Porträts der römischen Kaiserzeit, Paderborm, 2001, p. 215, 31,3.
For an identical phalera in translucent green glass see D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum, Vol. I, New York, 1997, pp. 26-27, no. 21. These phalerae were divided into types by Alföldi in 1951 - Type VI being the single head of Tiberius. Boschung (ibid, pp. 232-234) attributed this portrait to Tiberius, and suggested that the entire group was made in a single mould. As well as the Corning example, and another in the Vindonissa Museum, Brugg, the Sangiorgi example above is the only other complete Tiberius phalera known.
See D. B. Harden, Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, pp. 22-23, no. 2, for a similar glass paste phalera with Tiberius, Germanicus and Drusus the Younger. As Harden explains, "the medallion belongs to a closely-related group of glass objects that is associated with attempts to promote various members of the imperial family after the death of Augustus....The medallions were probably issued in sets of nine as parade decorations (dona militaria) to soldiers and were worn as phalerae on the breast-plate". For another two fragmentary phalerae of Tiberius with Drusus and Germanicus, see inv. nos 1923,0401.1158 and 1867,0507.499 in the British Museum.