DALION.-Nymph seated on a sea-horse, with two dolphins. Amethyst. The Hague. This name is probably ALLION mis-read.

DEMETRIUS. Hercules strangling the Nemean lion. Sard.

Marquis de Drée.

A bull. Sard. Baron von Schellersheim.

DEUTON.-Four cars racing.

Ant. Paste. Stosch.

DIOCLES.-Head of a young Faun. Jasper. Berlin.
DIONYSIUS.-Head of a Bacchante. De Murr.

DIOSCOURIDES.-Head of Io: three-quarter face, fillet round the hair, a necklace of two rows. Sard, deep intaglio. Poniatowsky.

Mercury Criophorus: naked and wingless figure leaning
against a column, and holding a ram's head in his hand.
Sard. Devonshire.

Mercury on a journey, with petasus, caducens and mantle.
Sard. Lord Holderness.

Perseus resting his hand on a shield with a Medusa's head,
and holding a sword. Sard. Naples.

Diomede, Master of the Palladium. Sard, in flat relief.
Devonshire.

Diomede carrying off the Palladium. Sard cracked. The
Hague.

Head of Demosthenes, front face. Amethyst, deep intaglio.
Ludovisi.

Head of Augustus; a star in the field. Amethyst, perhaps
by Sirletti. Blacas.

Bust of Augustus, with the Paludamentum. Amethyst. Thoms.
Head of Mæcenas, formerly called that of Solon. Amethyst.
Bibliothèque Royale.

The following are also attributed to Dioscorides :

Head of Augustus laureated. Cameo. Hamilton.

Bacchus drunken, riding on a panther, with cantharus and thyrsus. Cadés.

I have seen a most admirable copy of this head by Pichler, once Lelonging to Beckford.

Head of Caligula. Cameo. Walmoden.

Muse. Sard. Pulsky.

Head of Julius Cæsar, front face, and lituus. Sard. British
Museum.

Giant with serpent legs. Beryl. Blacas.

Hercules chaining Cerberus. Cameo. Berlin.

Hermaphroditus reclining; a Cupid playing the lyre; another the flute; a third holds a flambeau. Amethyst Zanetti.

Head of a girl. Topaz. Marlborough.

Bust of Serapis. Garnet. Caylus.

Silenus and a young faun playing the double flute. Very fine Sard. Naples.

Thalia holding a mask. Sard. Blacas.

Head of Sol radiated, front face; presented to Colbert by the Chapter of Figéac. Sard as large as a 30-sous piece."

Natter and Torricelli have copied all the best works of this artist, some of them repeatedly.

EPITYNCHANUS.-Portrait of Germanicus or Marcellus. Sard.

Blacas.

Triumph of Venus and Cupid. Raspe.

Mercury seated on an eagle. Raspe.

Bellerophon on Pegasus. Sard. Azara.

EROPHILUS.-Head of Augustus. Cameo, Green Jasper found at Trèves.

EUELPISTUS.-Chimera of two heads, and an elephant's trunk holding a caduceus.

Nemesis. Sard. Grivaud.

EUTHUS. Silenus seated on the ground; in front are two cupids, one playing the lyre, the other the syrinx. Cameo. Altieri.

EUTYCHES, Son of Dioscourides written

ΕΥΤΥΧΗΣ ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥ ΑΙΓΕΙΑΙΟΣ ΕΠ.

Bust of Pallas, front face, holding her robe on the breast. Pale Amethyst, deep intaglio. Marlborough or Schellersheim.

Phoebus in his car. Onyx. The Hague.

Head of a young Roman. Calcedony.

Minerva putting her vote in the urn at the trial of Orestes.
Eckhel.

EUHEMERUS.-Roman emperor in a cuirass. Sard. Landgraf von Hesse.

EVODUS.-Head of Julia Titi, with diadem, curled hair, necklace, earrings. Beryl or pale Sapphire, of extraordinary magnitude. Bibliothèque Royale.

Horse's head. Sard. Baron Roger.

Bust of a Muse, the head bound with a fillet-half length.
Lippert.

FELIX, freedman of Calpurnius Severus.-Diomede and Ulysses
carrying off the Palladium. Sard. Marlborough.
Centaur carrying two baskets. Sard. Odescalchi.
Victory naked slaughtering a bull. Raspe.

Head of Mercury. Red Jasper. Bibliothèque Royale.
GAMUS.-Hope. Emerald. Kestner.

GAURAMUS ANICETUS.-Combat between a dog and wild boar. Bloodstone. St. Aignan. The name may be that of the dog. GLYCON.-Venus riding on a sea-bull, surrounded by cupids. Sard. Bibliothèque Royale.

HEIUS.-Diana the huntress, in a stiff archaic style, holding a stag by the horn, bow in left hand. Sard. Stosch.3 Dying Amazon. Sard. Raspe.

Head of a youth, with curly hair, and tied with a fillet.
Sard. Lord Greville.

Minerva with a diadem. Nicolo. Raspe.

Ulysses and Diomede killing Dolon. Blacas.

HELLEN.-Bust of Antinous as Harpocrates, breast partly covered by the robe. Sard. Stosch.

Full face of young faun. EAAHNOV, doubtless name of owner.
Berlin.'

3 This is supposed to be the most ancient gem known, bearing the artist's name.

4 Head of a Bacchante, front-face,

inscribed EAAHN in very minute characters. Pale Ruby. L. Fould, formerly Boocke.

HEROS. -Shepherd leaning on his crook. Borgia.
HOROS.-Head of Tiberius. Abbé Pullini.

Silenus. Gori.

HYDRUS.-Paris. This name was assumed by Natter as the Greek form of his own German apellation, which means a water snake.

HYLLUS. The Bacchic bull, girt with ivy, above him a thyrsus. Calcedony. Stosch. The work of the bull similar to that on the medals of Sybaris.

Same bull. Sard. Lord Clanbrazil.

Ditto. The Hague and Bibliothèque Royale.

Copies of this gem are very numerous; and the same subject, though antique, often occurs with the name added in modern times.

Head of a female, called that of Cleopatra. Sard. St.
Petersburgh.

Youthful Hercules,-Aventinus. Onyx. Stosch.

Head of philosopher. Sard. Florence.

Triton, Nereid, and two cupids. Sard. Marlborough.

Head of a Muse, inscribed LAVR MED. Orleans Collection.
Sard.

Head of Paris. Modern. Algernon Percy.

Pallas seated looking at the Medusa's head. Antique paste. The Hague.

Mask of Silenus. Sard. General Rottier. This name has

been more usurped by modern engravers than even that of Aulus.

IADIS. Diana walking and about to let fly an arrow. Beryl. Percy. IRENE.-Man holding a cup, surmounted by a bird. Sard. Cortona Museum."

LEUCON, probably the correct reading of DEUCON.

LIPASIUS, probably for ASPASIUS.-Head of Rhea. Worsley Museum.

LEUCIOS.-Victory, in a biga. Sard. Walchenaer.

Masque of a bearded Faun. Gori.

Head of Poppaa. Sard. Wackerbarth.

This is clearly the owner's name, not the artist's.

MAXALUS.-Head laureated of Antoninus Pius. Cameo. Gori.

The inscription suspicious.

MENA OF DIODORUS.-Female head with diadem.

Onyx. De

Thoms. Most probably the name of the lady herself.

MIDIAS. Griffin and serpent. Cameo. Caylus.
MIDIAS.-Griffin

MILESIUS. Apollo seated before a tripod. Bracci.
MITH.-Head of a horse. Sard. Berlin.

Head of an eagle. Sard. Poniatowsky.
MORSIUS.-Hercules carrying a bull. Denham.
MUSICUS.-Harpocrates standing. Sard. The Hague.
MYCON.-Head of an old man. Jasper. Stosch.
Head of Caligula. Jasper. Lippert.

Cupid on a lion. Nicolo. Baron Magnancourt.
MYRON.-Head of Muse. Sard. Berlin.

Lion passant. Sard. Blacas.

Ajax kneeling and falling on his sword. Berlin. Apollo pursuing Daphne. Probably modern. MYRTON.-Leda, the swan flying towards her. Blacas. NAIUS, probably for GNAIUS.-Bust of a Muse, in front a mask; often called a Virgil. Raspe.

NEISUS.-Jupiter Anxur, beardless, holding the thunderbolt and
Egis. Sard. St. Petersburgh.

NEPOS.-Youth playing the lyre. Sard. Schellersheim.
NESTOR.-Bust of Cupid. Chrysolite. The Hague.

NICANDER. Bust of Julia Titi, inscribed NIKANAPOC EПOIЕI
Amethyst. Marlborough.

NICEPHORUS.-Mercury carrying on his hand the eagle. Onyx. Hesse Cassel.

Man seated forging a helmet. Sard. Florence.

NICOMACHUS OF NICONAS.-Faun seated on the ground upon his spread leopard's skin; two flutes before him. Black jasper. Marlborough.

Head of youthful Hercules. Sard. Schellersheim.

Venus Anadyomne. Splendid Sard. Uzielli. The name apparently a modern addition.

Gems with these letters are of King Mithridates, but on no suffiusually assigned to the dactyliotheca cient grounds.