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 53
)ecially the contestbetween men and lions, where naturally the muscles arestrongly developed and sliow pronnnently. i6 … BAKVLU.NIAN CVLINDEKS, THE ^uLKLi. oi UljIURV. CHALDEAN, ASSYPxIAX, AND BABYLOXTAN CYLINDERS. 49 As bearers of messages from tliat remote period tlicy comemore welcome to me than the fairest Greek or Roman inta-o-lios. With an iiiterestino- inctured and lettered cylinder in O O J. t mv liand I feel…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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