Item Number: 146224 Title: Engraved Gems : From antiquity to the present Author: van den Bercken, Ben ; Vivian Baan (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9789088905056 Description: Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2017. 28cm., pbk., ca. 230pp., 141 color, 26 b&w illus. Contents: 1. Roman Gems in Old Collections and in Modern Archaeology, Martin Henig. 2. Cassandra on Seals. Ring Stone Images as Self-Representation: an Example, Marianne Kleibrink. 3. Some Cameos in Leiden - Roman to Neoclassicism, Gertrud Platz-Horster. 4. The Original RMO Engraved Gem Collection: Gem Identification and Applied Research Techniques, Hanco Zwaan and Christine Swaving. 5. An Important Collection of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals, Diederik J.W. Meijer. 6. Sasanian Seals: Owners and Re-users, Rika Gyselen. 7. Invocations to Hermes and Aphrodite on Two Engraved Gems in Leiden, Attilio Mastrocinque. 8. The Importance of Gems in the Work of Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640, Marcia Pointon. 9. Post-Classical Cameos, their Makers and Users, Claudia Wagner. 10. Princely Splendour: Some Cameo Vessels from the Middle of the Seventeenth Century and their Patrons, Jorgen Hein. 11. "A Treasure, a Schoolmaster, a Pass-Time" Dactyliothecae in the 18th and 19th Centuries and their Function as Teaching Aids in Schools and Universities, Valentin Kockel. 12. Non Grylloi, Baskania Sunt. On the Significance of the So Called Grylloi/Grilli or Grylli in Greek and Roman Glyptics, Carina Weiss. 13. Another Perspective on the So Called Grylloi, Selkit Verberk. 14. Some Unpublished Scarabs from the Leiden Collection, Ben van den Bercken.
(PALMA - Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities, 14)
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