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The Engraved Gems of Classical Times - With a Catalogue of the Gems in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Paperback)
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The Engraved Gems of Classical Times - With a Catalogue of the Gems in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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This monograph on classical engraved gems, which also contains a
catalogue of the collection then held by the Fitzwilliam Museum,
was published in 1891. J. Henry Middleton (1846 1896) was at the
time the Director of the Museum and Slade Professor of Fine Art in
Cambridge. His intention was to provide an introductory volume for
students of archaeology which both traced the history of the use of
engraved gemstones as seals and signets from Babylonian to
classical times, described the techniques used to create these
miniature works of art, and gave catalogue definitions, enhanced by
photographic plates, of the Fitzwilliam collection, which had for
the most part been donated by Colonel W. M. Leake (1777 1860),
whose antiquarian interests had been aroused when he was sent to
the eastern Mediterranean to assist the Turkish army against the
French in the early nineteenth century.
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