King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 345
ng the phalerae, served likewise, singly, as fasteningsfor the military cloak. One of the largest examples known to me wasin the Praun collection, on a stone three inches in diameter, andpassing in the catalogue for the head of Isis. It was traversed withholes for strings crossing each other… … CAMEI OF THE REVIVAL. Ever since the first revival of the glyptic art, engravers, more espe-cially those of the two centuries following that epoch (which may hefixed at the middle of the fifteenth, in the pontificate of Paul II.), haveproduced infinitely more camei than intagli. The execution of…
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