King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 153
been contemporary withtheir scarabei, they would equally have displayed the figures of theheroes of the Epic Cycle. Or if made for more prosaic owners, theywould have borne the animals of Nature delineated with the samecorrectness : whereas it may safely be said that not one graffito devicehas yet… … 1IKENICIAN INTAGLI. There exists a somewhat numerous class of intagli, for the most partin calcedony, that seem to form the connecting link between theAssyrian cone and the Grecian ring stone. In figure they are ellipticaldisks, somewhat convex on the back, and having the device engravedupon the…
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