37, Double portrait (profile right): Alfonso II d’Este andLucretia de’ Medici (Scarisbrick). Busts of Omphale, wearing the lionskin and exposing one breast, and Herakles. Possibly Ptolemaic portraits.

Record Number: 40004849
Sub-database: MARLBOROUGH
Reference Number: 37
Period of Original Gem: RENAISSANCE
Material of Original Gem: LAPIS LAZULI
Description: DOUBLE PORTRAIT (PROFILE RIGHT): ALFONSO II D’ESTE ANDLUCRETIA DE’ MEDICI (SCARISBRICK). BUSTS OF OMPHALE, WEARING THE LIONSKIN AND EXPOSING ONE BREAST, AND HERAKLES. POSSIBLY PTOLEMAIC PORTRAITS.
Last Recorded Collection: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore: 42.1057
Previous Collections:
- Story-Maskelyne, M.H.: The Marlborough Gems (1870): no. 319
- Boardman, J., Scarisbrick, D., Wagner C., Zwierlein-Diehl, E: The Marlborough Gems (2009): no. 37
Shape: CAMEO
Size: 25X21
Comments: SET IN A PLAIN GOLD RING.

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