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Historical Archive: Gemma Augustea cameo Arabian sardonyx (banded agate), 19 x 23 x 1.4 cm 9/10-12 CE, often attributed to Dioscurides Tiberius and Germanicus approaching Augustus after putting down the "Great Illyrian Revolt", 9 CE setting gold and silver gilt, 17th c. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, ANSA IXa 79 full cameo oblique view from right Tiberius, Victory, Germanicus, Roma, Augustus, Oikumene (the inhabited world) and Ocean or Rhea-Kybele and Chronos-Saturn, Italia or Gaia (Tellus), youth Roman soldiers with tropaion, defeated barbarians, Diana, Hermes/Mercury Tiberius Germanicus eagle youth with ears of grain: Autumn? shield (pelta) with scorpion, astrological sign of Tiberius defeated barbarians armor with Gorgon head Diana and Hermes/Mercury kneeling and standing barbarians kneeling barbarian wearing torc