Salaminia (Cyprus) : the history, treasures, & antiquities of Salamis in the island of Cyprus (1882)
Cesnola, Alexander Palma di, 1837-, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London : Trübner and Co. · leaf 246
eological Association, vol. xxxii,pp. 115-117. In this example, the gem is a dark redcornelian or sard, 7-lGths inch diameter, engraved withthe spliinx (fig. 140) sejant, the head ])ound with a vitta,and the tail elevated and coiled. Immediately in front AND PRECIOUS STONES. 155 of the fore feet of… … Fig. 119. Gem Seal—A Sphinx. to his temerity/. The Norman-French inscription onthis seal ring is reversed. It reads li cocatrix. Theengraver probably mistook the subject for a cockatrice,which would be to him, in the thirteenth century, afamiliar denizen of the manuscript bestiaries, or…
