Engraved gems; their history and place in art, in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions; reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems ... to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities .. (1889)
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904 · Philadelphia, M. Sommerville · leaf 271
rd that here stood,before Diocletian, (ielasinus the ])oor (*hristian convert, for-merly an actor, and that by that emperLir s order he was therestoned to death. Here, as in all these great ruins of temples, were men pass-ing in and out of the otherwise deserted courts or loitering bychiselled… … GATE OF THE TEMPLE OF THE SUX, BAALBEC. MOUNT LEBANON. 267 and in cliillino- cloud, tlic Lebanon, its cedars, snow; sleepingin a wayside stone refuge which we metamorphosed into apahxce ^^ itli our camp-furniture and Persian carpets; tlie finaldescent; the freezing haze dissolving, withdraws the…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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