Worsley, Richard [Sammler] [Hrsg.]: Museum Worsleyanum: or, a collection of antique basso-relievos, bustos, statues, and gems ; with views of places in the Levant ; taken on the spot in the years MDCCLXXXV. VI. and VII. (Band 1) (London, 1824)

ANTIQUE GREEK GEMS.

Tython, or a giant defending himself, is inimitably engraved by Dioscorides on this

beautiful beryl, from the Cabinet of the Prince Eugene.

A grand head of Hercules crowned with ivy, found at Tarento:

A lion passant is engraved in a most masterly style on a very fine sardonyx, from

the Cabinet of Prince Colonna, at Rome.

A fine Greek head of one of the Dioscuri, found in Apulia, and engraved on a very

large garnet.

Hercules Buphagus, with an inscription in the field of the gem, not intelligible, but
probably the name of the engraver. It has been interpreted by some antiquaries for
Milo, a celebrated athlete of Crotona, who carried a bull on his shoulders above forty
yards, and afterwards killed it, and eat it in the course of a day. Intaglio, from the
Cabinet of Prince Eugene.

A fine head of the city Antiochia, near Daphne, with the engraver's name Lypasitis.
This beautiful onyx was in the cabinet of the Prince of Conti.

Hercules with a bull, is most admirably engraved in the first Greek style on this
beautiful jacinto guarnacino, from the Colonna Cabinet, the chef-d'oeuvre of the fine arts.

A large and very fine bust of Maecenas, with the engraver's name Solon. It was
found in the year 1794 in the excavations that were then making at Palestrina near
Rome.

Jupiter Tonans with the eagle, a good engraving, intaglio, from a celebrated
cabinet at Turin.

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