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 62
his not a lesson to us to-day—the day of bolts and bars, and honorless men who Ijreakthem with force ? I cannot better convey an idea of the useof these seals tlian l)v (pwting the following incident given byC. W. King, A. il., whose letters to me on tliis subject aretreastu-ed: Even after locks of… … ■ ASSYRIAN, PERSIAX, AND SASSAXIAN SEALS. 57 duty of the mistress of tlic lioiise, for Vopisciis qiiotes, inillustriition of Aurelians simjjle mode of life, tlmt he madehis wife contimie to carrv tlie anmdus signetorius ns whenthey were hoth in a private station. l)ioj>enes Laertius, to putin…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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