Antique Gems Their Origin Uses And Value As Interpreters of Ancient History
Antique Gems Their Origin Uses And Value As Interpreters of Ancient History
C W Charles William King
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Their being fomid abundantly in the Etrurian ^ This giiilloclie border is often fouiid enclosing; the tyixjs upon the large flat didrachins of certain cities of ^lagna Grecia, as Metapontum and Sybaris. Tlie figure of tlic IniU- licaded river-god, the Aclielous, on the former coins, and tlie knig-honieil ox regardant, resembling an ante- lope, uix)n the latter, are executed in a flat stifl' manner, but highly finished, and very similar to the woric on many of these gems, with which there can be... no doubt they were coeval. This cinlirnis mv opinion that the best of these intagli are not of Etruscan origin, but tliat the idea was taken from that people, and improved upon by the Greek colonists of the south of Italy. As the city of Sybaris was utterly de- stroyed K. C. 510, and never restored, all the extant coins must have been issued during the two centuries be- fore that date ; and hence we can fqrm a notion as to the actual ei)Och of the intagli corresi>onding with these in style and workmanship.
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