A catalog of the antiquities and works of art, exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, in the month of May, 1861 (1869)
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, French, George Russell, 1803-1881, London (England). Ironmongers' Company · [S.l. : s.n.] · leaf 46
• i8 Antiquities and Works of Art, The scarabseus, or beetle, was, with the Egyptians, the emblem of the Sun, and the symbolof immortality. It is the earliest example of the glyptic art in existence, and was cut out ofbasalt, carnelian, agate, lapis lazuli, and other hard substances. The form of…
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