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 275
jerb basso-rilievoson the white slabs above in the Acropolis, where the memoryof the sleeping masters called me to the Parthenon, once theg-orgeons throne, now the desecrated tomb, of the chrysele-phantine goddess Minerva. Phidias sleejjs with the fruits ofhis lab(u-; their mingled a.slies…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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