entre-bit orwimble.2 1 E. Soldi, Les Cylindres babyloniens {Revue archéologique, vol. xxviii. p. 147). 2 Ibid. p. 149. Gems. 261 On examining the oldest Mesopotamian engravings on preciousstones a skilled craftsman would see at once that nearly all thework had been done with only two… … 11—- -^s^ty lllliiii- ijssméPI ■t Fig. 139.—Chalcedony cylinder. British Museum. Some idea of the strange results produced by these first attemptsat gem-engraving may be formed from our reproductions of twocylinders in the collection at the British Museum. The influenceof the process, the tyranny…
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