The builder’s stones are graven—the footway is of pictured pebbles, miniatures, amulets, and seals, reflecting lineaments and traces of the history of entombed generations. Their inscriptions reveal to us the impress of ancient, mediæval, and modern art.
INDEX.
- Abraxas or Gnostics, [58-62], [102]
- Talismans, [58], [102]
- Agalmatolite, [123]
- Amethyst, [123]
- Amulets, [112]
- Animals and Birds, [112-115]
- Ant, the, as a talisman, the most minute, [113]
- Antique Pastes, [116-120]
- Apollo, [66]
- Aringa, the, a fish of the Adriatic Sea, [113]
- Ashurna Sirbal, King of Assyria, palace of, [22]
- Asshur (Assyrian), Supreme God, [32]
- Assyrian Records, [39]
- Astarte, [66]
- Aztec or Mexican, [127-128]
- Bacchus and Ariadne, [89-90]
- Basilidians, [62]
- Beltis Mylitta (Assyrian), the Great Mother, [32]
- Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, [72]
- Bôdhi-tree at Gaya, [124]
- British Museum, London, [72], [119]
- Buddha, [124]
- Byzantine, [68-75]
- Period, [11]
- Cameos, [55], [68], [72], [87], [89], [90], [94], [104], [112], [116], [119], [127]
- Historical, [55], [104]
- Religious, [11]
- Catharine II., Empress of Russia, [87], [94]
- Charles V., Emperor, [86]
- Chinese, Burmese, and Siamese, [123-124]
- Figure-stone, [124]
- Christ, Century of, [11]
- Heads of, [75]
- Cleopatra, beautiful Turquoise Cameo, [108]
- Commodus, [90]
- Constantine, Emperor, [68], [71], [94], [104]
- Baptism of, [72]
- Conversion of, [72]
- Coriolanus, interesting Historic Cameo, [104]
- Crispus, Son of Constantine, [97]
- Cylinders, Babylonian, [14], [25]
- Brazil, [32]
- Chaldean, over 4000 years old, [25]
- Found in ruins of Um Kir, [35]
- Nineveh, [32]
- Oldest form of Seals, [25]
- Persian, [12]
- South American Indians, [32]
- Cypselus, box of, [48]
- Decebalus, plot of, [111]
- De Witte, Baron J., [93]
- Dioscorides, [87]
- Dolphin, a, the Mariner’s Friend, [113]
- Duaoumautew, [19]
- Duke of Devonshire, [88]
- of Marlborough, [88]
- of Orleans, [87]
- Early Christians, [65-67]
- Gems of, [65]
- Egypt, [16-21]
- Temples of, [12]
- Egyptians, [39]
- Records, [39]
- Emperor Caracalla, [13]
- Constantine, [13], [68], [71], [72], [94], [104]
- Tiberius, [13]
- England, [86]
- Engraved Gems for Ornamentation, [85]
- Quality of Execution, [11], [13]
- Pietradura, [65], [119]
- Etruscans—Etruria, the, [36-40]
- Country of Ancient, [36]
- Inscriptions, [39]
- Tombs of, [36]
- Farnese Family, [84]
- Fausta, Wife of Constantine, [68], [97]
- Faustina, [13]
- Feuardent, M., Paris, [93]
- Frog, the, [114]
- Gazette Archæologique, Paris, [93]
- Gem-cutting, earliest mention of, [98]
- George III., King of England, [87]
- Giovanni Pickler, works of, [87]
- Glyptology, [14]
- Græco-Roman, [52], [56], [90]
- Greece, [44-52]
- Helena, Mother of Constantine, [68], [97]
- Hilprecht, Prof. H. V., [22]
- Historic Cameos, [55], [104-111]
- Holy Family, token Cameos and Intaglios of, [68]
- Horatius defending the Bridge, [108]
- Imperial Collection, St. Petersburg, [72]
- Incas, Breast Ornaments, [127]
- Incisori, [51], [66], [71], [72], [102]
- Intaglios, [32], [44], [48], [52], [55], [68], [72], [77], [87], [100], [112], [116], [119]
- Jade, Chinese, [123]
- Jewish Prisoners, [111]
- Josephine, Empress of France, [87]
- Jupiter Ægiochus, [90], [91]
- the Eagle of, Amulet, [113]
- King, Prof. C. W., [94]
- Lenormant, Francois, [26], [93]
- Longperier, M. Adrien, [93]
- Mamæa, Julia, Mother of Alexander Severus, [119]
- Marchand, works of, [87]
- Marcius, Original Name of Coriolanus, [104]
- Marcus Aurelius, [90], [107]
- Mediæval, [76-79]
- Medici Family, [80], [84]
- Lorenzo de, [84]
- Mercury, [66]
- Message-bearing Stones, [88]
- Middle Ages (Night of Art), [76]
- Minerva, [114]
- Minos, King of Crete, [89]
- Minotaur, at Crete, [90]
- Monks, work of, [77]
- Museum, British, [72], [119]
- of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, [94]
- of the Louvre, Paris, [93]
- University of Pennsylvania, [16], [22], [89]
- Mycenæ, [51]
- Mythological, [121-122]
- Nacre, [123]
- Natter, works of, [87]
- Naxos (Dia), Island of, [89], [90]
- Nephrite, [128]
- Night of Art, [12], [76], [79]
- Northwick Collection, England, [93]
- Osiris, Colossal Stone Figure, [16]
- Owl, the, [114]
- Parrot, the, Attendant on Bacchus, [113]
- Parsees, [101]
- Peacock, the, Favorite of Juno, [113]
- Persia, [102]
- and Babylon, [22-35]
- Phœnicia, [43-47]
- Cylinders, [43]
- Scarabeus, [43]
- Pistrucci, works of, [87]
- Pizarro, [127]
- Pope Leo X., [84]
- Paul III., [84]
- Portland, Duchess of, [119]
- Vase, [119]
- Prescott, [127]
- Prince Frederick of Prussia, [87]
- Publius Lentullus, [66]
- Rameses, Colossal Stone Figure, [16]
- Raven, the, Friend of Apollo, [113]
- Rawlinson, Sir Henry, [35]
- Religious Stone Literature, [99]
- Tokens, [61], [65], [100]
- Renaissance, [80-85]
- Cradle of the, [84]
- Oratorio of the, [83]
- Retrospective, [129], [130]
- Roman, [55-57]
- Empire in Byzantia, [94]
- Gem Engraving, [55]
- Royal Collection, Vienna, [72]
- Salle des Pierres Gravées, Paris, [93]
- Santarelli, works of, [87]
- Sapor I., King of Sassanians, [22], [25]
- Sardinia, originally Sandaleotis, [44]
- Sassanians, [75]
- Scarabeus, Egyptian, [20]
- Etruscan, [36]
- Funereal, [16], [19], [20], [21]
- Phœnician, [44], [47]
- Scorpion, a, [113]
- Scriptural Cameos, [72]
- Seals, Assyrian, [26], [31], [32]
- Persian, [12], [31]
- Phœnician, [44]
- Religious, [100]
- Sassanian, [31]
- Serapis, [66]
- Severus, Alexander, Emperor, [119]
- Signets of Kings, [25]
- Silenus and Bacchus, [78]
- Sirletti, works of, [87]
- Stone Fetiches, [58]
- Storks, [114]
- Succeeding Declines and Revivals, [86-88]
- Talismans, Abraxas, [58], [62]
- Tesseræ, [65]
- Tharros, [47]
- Theseus, [89]
- Thotmes, Colossal Stone Figure, [16]
- Titus Vespasianus, [104], [111]
- Trajan, [104], [108]
- Triumph of Constantine, [94-97]
- Um-Kir, Ruins of, [35]
- Unique Gems, [72]
- Work of the Aztecs, [127]
- Venus, [66]
- Veturia, Mother of Coriolanus, [104]
- Volscians, [104]
- Volumnia, Wife of Coriolanus, [104]
- Zulian Cameo, [93]
Transcriber’s Note:
List of Illustrations entry: Greek and Roman Intaglio Rings Page 49 corrected to Page 50.
Obvious printer errors corrected silently.
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.