Evans, Arthur: An illustrative selection of Greek and Greco-Roman gems: to which is added a Minoan and proto-Hellenic series ; acquired, through over 60 years of travel and research in Crete, Mainland Greece, the East Adriatic Coastlands, Sicily, and Magna Graecia (Oxford, 1938)

of Athena (cf. Euripides, Ion, 939 seqq.). Figured
by Furtwangler, A.G., PI. XXXVIII, 2; cf. ii. 181.
Found in Rome.

139. Clear glass paste of abnormal size. Hora of
Summer holding in right hand wreath and in left
poppy capsule and ears of barley. Taken from
procession of the Seasons (Campana, Op. Plast.,
Tab. 62). See Furtwangler, A.G., PI. XXXVIII,
3: ii. 181. Found in Rome.

GRECO-ROMAN CAMEOS

140. Arabian sardonyx. Bust of Augustus, seen from
behind,showing laurel crown, sword band, and richly
executed aegis with gorgoneion and winged bearded
head, perhaps of Wind God. (The point of the nose
and the ear are slightly injured.) Type similar to
that of the Strozzi cameo in the B.M., but older face
—'The features here are rendered with extraordinary
fineness and clearness; the mouth, the nose, the
surroundings of the eye, the cheeks, and folds of the
neck and forehead are modelled in an extremely
careful and lifelike manner . . . This cameo would
have been a worthy work of Diokurides in the later
days of Augustus' (Furtwangler, A.G. ii. 302:
PI. XVIII, 49). Dr. Furtwangler expressed to me
his personal opinion that this was the finest cameo of
the Marlborough Collection (No. 481). Earlier in
the Arundel Collection. (See title-page.)

141. A pale onyx, deeply undercut according to Illrd-
century fashion. Draped bust of Caracalla.

142. Onyx, cut through the whitish band. Hypsipyle
flying from the serpent that had killed her nurseling
Opheltes; she spreads her mantle to protect herself
from its fangs. Apparently based on a Hellenistic
relief or painting. Athens.

143. Onyx. Lion walking right.

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