Constantinople by Baldwin II, the last of the Latinemperors, and presented by him to Louis IX (PI. LXXVII). Intechnical execution this cameo is inferior to the Gemma Augustea,and is on that account ascribed by Furtwangler to a Roman artist;but in composition, and in the proportion of its several… … Fig. 61. used) and in very low relief. Fortunately, we are at no loss todetermine its date and significance. In a.d. 17 Germanicus,having returned to Rome from the Rhine, where he had avengedthe defeat of Varus by a series of punitive campaigns, wasdispatched by Tiberius on the ill-starred mission…
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