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Mesocorinthian crater with columns with battle scenes and animals
Attic jars from the red figure
Mycenaean amphora with stirrup handle
Bronze mirror with Lasa
Cup of Thymiaterion
Figurine of warrior on horseback
Syringe player figurine
Cup with double handle signed "Clemens"
Veiled female head
Veiled male head
Head of a child
Jasper engraved with a scene of sacrifice
Agate engraved with kneeling warrior with armor and shield
Black jasper engraved with victorious horse with palm branch
Sardonic cameo with Bacchant's head
Carnelian engraved with a dog chasing a deer
Double register pseudo-aedicule stele
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Stone Pluteus with interwoven and phytomorphic ribbon decoration
Cubic capital in decorated stone
Stone capital with eight-petaled flower and other phytomorphic motifs
Arched tile with central shaft
Altarpiece Virgin enthroned
Angel head
High relief Santa Fosca
High relief representing the Lamentation over the dead Christ
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Mesocorinthian crater with columns with battle scenes and animals
Attic jars from the red figure
Mycenaean amphora with stirrup handle
Bronze mirror with Lasa
Cup of Thymiaterion
Figurine of warrior on horseback
Syringe player figurine
Cup with double handle signed "Clemens"
Veiled female head
Veiled male head
Head of a child
Jasper engraved with a scene of sacrifice
Agate engraved with kneeling warrior with armor and shield
Black jasper engraved with victorious horse with palm branch
Sardonic cameo with Bacchant's head
Carnelian engraved with a dog chasing a deer
Double register pseudo-aedicule stele
Stele di Tattia Procula e di Publius Valerius Servolus
Clay oil lamp with ogival beak with volutes
Stone Pluteus with interwoven and phytomorphic ribbon decoration
Cubic capital in decorated stone
Stone capital with eight-petaled flower and other phytomorphic motifs
Arched tile with central shaft
Altarpiece Virgin enthroned
Angel head
High relief Santa Fosca
High relief representing the Lamentation over the dead Christ
Adoration of the Magi
Sculpture representing the praying Madonna
Well with griffins reworked on a Roman base
Holy water stoup
Pastoral hedgehog
Formella with hare and leaf
Seal of Anastasio Patrizio
Transit of the Virgin
Bronze fibula
Fragment of dish

Sardonic cameo with Bacchant's head

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Torcello Museum

Torcello Museum

Piazza Torcello, Venice

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The multi-layered sardonic cameo portrays a female bust facing left surrounded with an ivy crown that identifies the character as Bacchante, a follower of the god Dionysus. It is a very common subject in ancient production, but this example is an imitation creation of the early nineteenth century.
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Title: Sardonic cameo with Bacchant's head

Author: Anonymous

Date: nineteenth century

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Displayed in: Torcello Museum

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