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 387
ion, as theSon of man in his sufterings. Yet in tliose very times thelarge sect of the Ahraxas, to whom he also was revealed,carried to their hearts in blind belief talismans bearing theimage of their god,/.(^f7—a pantheus with human trunk, eagleshead, and members symbolic of the foiu- elements;… … 3S1
Gems · Classical antiquities
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