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The Blacas Cameo is an unusually large Ancient Roman cameo, 12.8 cm high, carved from a piece of sardonyx with four alternating layers of white and brown. It shows the profile head of the Roman emperor Augustus and probably dates from shortly after his death (aged 75) in AD 14, perhaps from AD 20-50. It has been in the British Museum since 1867,

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