509, Horatius Cocles defends the bridge. Horatius is on horseback (shield device a bearded head). Six followers with pickaxes, hammers, and spades, work behind him, and he is faced by warriors with shields (head devices), bow, spears, and swords, one falling, two others and a broken spear and helmet in the water. The bridge has five arches.

Record Number: 40005172
Sub-database: Marlborough
Reference Number: 509
Period of Original Gem: Renaissance
Material of Original Gem: Onyx
Description: Horatius Cocles defends the bridge. Horatius is on horseback (shield device a bearded head). Six followers with pickaxes, hammers, and spades, work behind him, and he is faced by warriors with shields (head devices), bow, spears, and swords, one falling, two others and a broken spear and helmet in the water. The bridge has five arches.
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
- Story-Maskelyne, M.H.: The Marlborough Gems (1870): no. 596
- Boardman, J., Scarisbrick, D., Wagner C., Zwierlein-Diehl, E: The Marlborough Gems (2009): no. 509
Shape: Cameo
Size: 38x26

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/6166B8D4-13A4-49E4-B422-F25D0BED55E8

My photograph albums