Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.
- Karl Otfried Müller
- Date:
- 1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ENGRAVED STONES AND COINS. in the year 12. Augustus (beside him his horoscope, comp. Eckhel D. N. V- p 109) with the lituus as a symbol of the auspices, sits enthroned as Jupiter Victorious together with Roma; Terra, Oceanus, Abundantia surround the throne, and are in the act of crowning him. Tiberius triumphing over the Pannonians, descends from the car, which is guided by a Victory, in order to prostrate himself before Augustus. Germani- cus at the same time receives honores triumphales. Below, a tropaeon la erected by Roman legionaries and auxiliaries (here the scorpion on a shield perhaps refers to the horoscope of Tiberius). Sueton. Tib. 20. Passow has last contributed to the explanation in Zimmermann's Zeit- Bchrift fiir Alterthumsw. 1834. N. 1. 2. [after Thiersch Epochen s. 306.] b. The Parisian Cameo, by Baldwin the II. from Byzantium to St, Louis; de la Ste ChapeUe (there caUed Joseph's dream), now in the Cabinet du Roi. Le Roy, Achates Tiberianus. 1683. Millin G. M. 181, 676. Mongez, pi. 26. [Clarac, pi. 1052.] The largest of aU, 13 X 11 in.; a sardonyx of five layers [which is usually thought to be a work of the Augustan age, but is by some assigned to the third century]. The Au- gustan family some time after the death of Augustus. Above: Augustus in heaven welcomed by ^neas, Divus Julius and Drusus. In the middle: Tiberius as Jupiter ^giochus beside Livia-Ceres, under whose auspices Germanicus goes to the East in the year 17. Around them, the elder Agrippina, Caligula (comitatus patrem et in Syriaca expeditione, Suet. Calig. 10. comp. M. Borbon. v, 36), Drusus II, a prince of the Arsacidae (?), Cho, and Polymnia. Below: The nations of Germany and the East con- quered. Explained in the same way by Eckhel, Visconti, Mongez, Icono- graphie and Mem. de I'Inst. Roy. viii. p. 370 (Sacerdoce de la famille de Tibfere pour le culte d'Auguste), particularly by Thiersch Epochen, s. 305. On the contrary, Hirt, Analekten i, ii. s. 322, explains it as Nero's adop- tion into the Julian family, at the same time with which there happened to be an arrival of captives from the Bosporus. Fleck Wissensch. Reise durch das siidUche Deutschland, Itaiien u. s. w. i, 1. s. 172. [The apo- theosis of Augustus in a relief in the Sacristy of San Vitali at Ravenna, with Roma, Claudius, Jul. Caesar, Livia as Juno, Augustus as Jupiter.] c. That of the Netherlands (de Jonge, Notice sur le Cab. des Me- dailles du Roi des Pays-Bas, i Suppl. 1824, p. 14), [Clarac, pi. 1054, Clau- dius and his family, Germanicus and Agrippina, pi. 1055—1057.] a sar- donyx of three layers, 10 inches high, excellent in design, but much in- ferior in execution to the others. Millin G. M. 177,678. Mongez, pi. 29. Claudius as Jupiter triumphant (after the Britannic victory), Messalina, Octavia and Britannicus in a chariot drawn by Centaurs as trophy- bearers ; Victory flying on before. The representation of Germanicus and Agrippina travelling over the world as Triptolemus and Demeter Thesmophorus (with the scroll), on a fine cameo at Paris, is designed in the same spirit of ingenious adulation. M6m. de I'Ac. des Inscr. i. p. 276. MiUin G. M. 48, 220. Mongez, pi. 24*, 3.—A silver goblet in the KK. Antiken-Cabinet, which was found at Aquileia, exhibits a similar composition excellently designed. On the upper field, between Jupiter and Ceres, Proserpina and Hecate, Germani- cus, as it seems, is represented, in relief (the drapery gilded) about to sacrifice at an altar to these deities, in order afterwards to mount the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2178016x_0209.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
