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A. Alföldi, Römische Porträtmedaillons aus Glas. Ur-Schweiz 15, 1951, 66, p. 72, VI, 3, pl. III, 3.3.
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.
D. Boschung, “Römische Glasphalerae mit Porträtbüsten“, Bonner Jahrbücher 187, 1987, p. 234, no. 6.
K. Dahmen, Untersuchungen zu Form und Funktion kleinformatiger Porträts der römischen Kaiserzeit, Paderborm, 2001, p. 216, no. 6.
For a complete 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 in1951 - 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 three complete examples known (see lot 95), the Corning example above, and another in the Vindonissa Museum, Brugg), there are only five fragmentary examples, including the above lot. The others can be found in the Archaeological Museum, Zadar, the Capitoline Museum, Rome, The Hermitage, St Petersburg, and the Staatliche Museum, Munich.
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.
A. Alföldi, Römische Porträtmedaillons aus Glas. Ur-Schweiz 15, 1951, 66, p. 72, VI, 3, pl. III, 3.3.
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.
D. Boschung, “Römische Glasphalerae mit Porträtbüsten“, Bonner Jahrbücher 187, 1987, p. 234, no. 6.
K. Dahmen, Untersuchungen zu Form und Funktion kleinformatiger Porträts der römischen Kaiserzeit, Paderborm, 2001, p. 216, no. 6.
For a complete 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 in1951 - 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 three complete examples known (see lot 95), the Corning example above, and another in the Vindonissa Museum, Brugg), there are only five fragmentary examples, including the above lot. The others can be found in the Archaeological Museum, Zadar, the Capitoline Museum, Rome, The Hermitage, St Petersburg, and the Staatliche Museum, Munich.
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.