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 51
nibol ready to l)e \\(m-\\ when that tenantshould enter on his resurrection into an eternal lease of joy ina world be^sond. … CHALDEAN, ASSYRIAN, AND BABYLO-NIAN CYLINDERS. Cylinders are e\idently the oldest fonu of seals, tliougli itis believed that tlie art oriiiinated on sections of wooden reeds.We iind Chaldean c^•linders now more tlian thive thousand fivehundred vears old. Two exanijjles—one described by M. deClercq…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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