Possible Cameo of Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus, known as Pliny the Elder, from a Roman cameo. This is the only portrait reputed to be of Pliny, but its identity is disputed, and no confirmed likeness survives. Collection Cades C/211. Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) was a Roman naturalist and author of Historia Naturalis. Based on two thousand books by nearly five hundred authors, the work covered zoology, botany, geography and astronomy. It was widely copied in the Middle Ages

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Cameo Gaius Naturalis Naturalist Plinius Pliny Secundus

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