page_title: Portland Vase
section_title: Scene 2
hierarchical_section_title: Portland Vase / Iconography / Scene 2
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Seite B der Portlandvase, aus Überfangglas hergestellt, wahrscheinlich aus Italien um 5-25 n. Chr. English: Side B of the Portland Vase. Cameo-glass, probably made in Italy ca. 5-25 AD. Français&#160;: Face B du Vase Portland. Camée en verre, probablement réalisé à Rome vers 5-25 ap. J.-C.
context_page_description: The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, which is dated to between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support. It is the best known piece of Roman cameo glass and has served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards. It is first recorded in Rome in 1600–1601, and since 1810 has been in the British Museum in London. It was bought by the museum in 1945 and is normally on display in Room 70.
  The vase is about 25 centimetres high and 56 cm in circumference. It is made of violet-blue glass, and surrounded with a single continuous white glass cameo making two distinct scenes, depicting seven human figures, plus a large snake, and two bearded and horned heads below the handles, marking the break between the scenes.
  The bottom of the vase was a cameo glass disc, also in blue and white, showing a head, presumed to be of Paris or Priam on the basis of the Phrygian cap it wears. This roundel clearly does not belong to the vase, and has been displayed separately since 1845.
context_section_description: Interpretations include:
  A divinatory dream by Hecuba that the Judgement of Paris would lead to the destruction of Troy
  Ariadne languishing on Naxos
  The woman languishing is Octavia Minor, abandoned by Mark Antony, between her brother Augustus (left, as a god, as on the contemporary Sword of Tiberius) and Venus Genetrix, the ancestor of Augustus and Octavia's Julian gens.
caption: Scene 2
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