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 87
^ They were Pagans, Jews, and Christians, and we find in 80 A- - 1 B- •> P- -100 A- - 1 X- - 60 A- - 1 2- -200 … ABRAXAS. 83 their inexliaiistible inscriptions a series of emblems, Hebrewand Svriae, a\ hieli dimly show forth Christ the Son and Sunof Rio-hteousness witli AAONAI, and the seven Greek vowelssvrabolic of the seven heavens. These Greek vowels haveoften amused me when I have shown an Abraxas…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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