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teiches scarab, already known, the honour of being the
earliest of such on hard stone. Nor, though in this case
unsigned, can it be reasonably doubted that the pale
sard, secured by me in Sicily, presenting Herakles
and the lion, already mentioned, was an official seal
executed for Dionysos at Syracuse by the great
engraver Euainetos, who signs so many of its coin-
types. The hyacinthine sard, signed NIKANAPOC,
with the lower part of the head of a Ptolemaic queen
—probably Berenice II—is a well-known piece from
the Marlborough Collection—there restored as 'Iulia
Titi'. Quite unique and unpublished is the brilliant
sard with the head and neck of the swimming Naiad,
signed by a female artist, Erato, a work of extraordi-
narily delicate execution. The remarkable gold signet-
ring found at Kertch (No. 65) with a Syrian garnet
presenting a portrait of a young prince of Bosporus
—identified as Asander—in a late Hellenistic style,
and signed in minute letters by the engraver Apollo-
nios, is a historic record of the first order.
Of exceptional importance in the history of Art
is the golden sard—curiously obtained—giving the
best existing idea of the 'hunting of Alexander', as
once seen on the missing bronze group of which the
French Excavators at Delphi found only the base.
No. 70, on the other hand, supplies the best record
that has been preserved to us of Socrates in a charac-
teristic pose.
Among Roman gems the magnificent facing bust of
Helioserapis, deeply cut on a red sard and set in a mas-
sive gold ring, is an outstanding work of the Antonine
Age. In the field of Roman portraiture may be men-
tioned the boldly characterized head, somewhat re-
sembling Galba, and No. 154, the very fine profile por-
trait of Marcus Aurelius as shown on medallions of his
[vii]
earliest of such on hard stone. Nor, though in this case
unsigned, can it be reasonably doubted that the pale
sard, secured by me in Sicily, presenting Herakles
and the lion, already mentioned, was an official seal
executed for Dionysos at Syracuse by the great
engraver Euainetos, who signs so many of its coin-
types. The hyacinthine sard, signed NIKANAPOC,
with the lower part of the head of a Ptolemaic queen
—probably Berenice II—is a well-known piece from
the Marlborough Collection—there restored as 'Iulia
Titi'. Quite unique and unpublished is the brilliant
sard with the head and neck of the swimming Naiad,
signed by a female artist, Erato, a work of extraordi-
narily delicate execution. The remarkable gold signet-
ring found at Kertch (No. 65) with a Syrian garnet
presenting a portrait of a young prince of Bosporus
—identified as Asander—in a late Hellenistic style,
and signed in minute letters by the engraver Apollo-
nios, is a historic record of the first order.
Of exceptional importance in the history of Art
is the golden sard—curiously obtained—giving the
best existing idea of the 'hunting of Alexander', as
once seen on the missing bronze group of which the
French Excavators at Delphi found only the base.
No. 70, on the other hand, supplies the best record
that has been preserved to us of Socrates in a charac-
teristic pose.
Among Roman gems the magnificent facing bust of
Helioserapis, deeply cut on a red sard and set in a mas-
sive gold ring, is an outstanding work of the Antonine
Age. In the field of Roman portraiture may be men-
tioned the boldly characterized head, somewhat re-
sembling Galba, and No. 154, the very fine profile por-
trait of Marcus Aurelius as shown on medallions of his
[vii]