A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 29
h sand and emery for polishing. Noancient iron tool has ever been found; but this may be onaccount of the rusting and decay of this metal. Sir G. Wilkin-son found a chisel made of an alloy of tin and copper, not hardor brittle, the edge of which was easily turned by striking it 6 THE GLYPTIC… … Fig. 4.—Camko. Gigantimachia.Naples 3Iuseum. approaching the round, in the softer stones, limestone andalabaster; small objects only, such as the incised cylinders usedas seals, being worked in the hard stones. Hard Stones. Greek and Roman sculptors made many statuesand bas-reliefs in hard stones,…
Sculpture, Ancient
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