2nd-3rd century AD. A carved jet mount with facing head of Medusa, her sorrowful face framed with curling serpents, large wings to the brow; stepped rim. See Henig, M., The Content Family Collection of Ancient Cameos, Oxford, 1990, p.91, fig.161, for a broadly similar depiction in onyx; Ruseva-Slokovska L., Roman Jewellery, a collection of the National Archaeological Museum-Sofia, Sofia, 1991.8.85 grams, 31mm (1 1/4"). Property of an Austrian private collector since the 1970s; accompanied by a scholarly note no.TL5325 by Dr Ronald Bonewitz; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10558-170995.