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)

144. Onyx. Head of Medusa cut in high relief in thick
white layer. Salona, Dalmatia.

145. Cameo cut in white layer of glass paste imita-
ting onyx. Girl seated, holding scroll and apparently
hearing lesson repeated by boy in front of her:
behind, another girl bends over her, resting her hand
on her shoulders. Aquileia.

146. Cameo cut in white layer of glass paste, as above.
Psyche dandling a little Eros. Salona, Dalmatia.

147. Onyx with thick white layer; much undercut.
Head of girl with coiffure answering to fashions of
about the middle of the Illrd century A.D., perhaps
Salonina. (Nose fractured.) Salona, Dalmatia.

148. Sardonyx, pale white and reddish brown.
Emperor of first half of IVth century A.D., perhaps
Constantine, seated in four-horse chariot crowned
with laurel wreath held partly by Victory behind
and partly by boy Genius flying towards him. He
holds the mappa in his hand. The horses are guided
by a helmeted warrior in front, and beside the
chariot, reaching his arm towards the reins, walks a
boy, probably a Caesar, with drapery round his arm
and loins. The whole within a cord-like frame.

GRECO-ROMAN INTAGLIOS WITH
PORTRAITS

149. Black highly bossed stone. Head of girl with
hair dressed in fashion of 1st century B.C. Inscribed
AGATEM (AT in ligature). From Italy.

150. Dark oval ring-stone. Bold, strongly charac-
terized portrait head of an elderly Roman of the
Earlv Empire, somewhat resembling Galba. Athens.
(PI. VII.)

151. Dark oval ring-stone. Portrait head of Roman
type: apparently Mark Antony. Found in Greece.
(PI. VII.)

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