5054674 Cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus, c.41??4 AD (sardonyx) by Roman, (1st century AD); 3.7x2.9 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Augustus (Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus 63 BC-AD 14) Roman statesman and military leader, first emperor of the Roman Empire, 27 BC until his death. Wearing the aegis decorated with the head of a wind god, perhaps as a personification of the winds that brought the corn fleet from Egypt to Rome, oblique reference to Augustus??? annexation of Egypt after the defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Actium in 31 B.C. Early Imperial, Claudian).