Early Christian numismatics, and other antiquarian tracts (1873)
King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell & Daldy · leaf 142
gdo, its legend gives the barbarous wordamarildo; and this the painters have duly tran-scribed without any definite notion of its meaning ; infact, some of the variations in its spelling in the diffe-rent copies give reason to suspect that they understoodit as the name of a place. Now the word… … NOTICE OF A EEMARKABLE INTAGLIO REPRE-SENTING THE CLEPSYDRA USED AT RACESIN THE CIRCUS MAXIMUS. At the dispersion (1864) of the collection of works ofancient art formed by the late Mr. J. W. Brett, Ibecame possessed of a very curious, possibly unique,intaglio, the subject engraved upon the gem…
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