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... wear can efface , and nothing destroy , except the utter comminution of the stone itself . Medals , on the contrary , from the high relief of their surface , and the unavoidable friction of commerce , as well as from the action of the ...
... wear can efface , and nothing destroy , except the utter comminution of the stone itself . Medals , on the contrary , from the high relief of their surface , and the unavoidable friction of commerce , as well as from the action of the ...
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... wear of this unfortunate lady , the very impersonation of refined and elegant extravagance . These gems , although mounted in a suite of ornaments intended , from their origin , to form a part of the crown jewels of France , never ...
... wear of this unfortunate lady , the very impersonation of refined and elegant extravagance . These gems , although mounted in a suite of ornaments intended , from their origin , to form a part of the crown jewels of France , never ...
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... wearing rings . These early signets , also , according to Ateius Capito , were not set with engraved stones , but had the seal cut upon the metal of the ring itself . When the use of gold rings was introduced amongst them by the Greeks ...
... wearing rings . These early signets , also , according to Ateius Capito , were not set with engraved stones , but had the seal cut upon the metal of the ring itself . When the use of gold rings was introduced amongst them by the Greeks ...
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... wearing a comic mask . Sard . 13. VENUS REGARDING HERSELF IN A CONVEX MIRROR . Agate . 14. INDIAN BACCHUS . Archaic style . Sard . 15. ERECTHEUS ABOUT TO SACRIFICE HIS DAUGHTER CHTHONIA beneath the sacred olive - tree : a female seen ...
... wearing a comic mask . Sard . 13. VENUS REGARDING HERSELF IN A CONVEX MIRROR . Agate . 14. INDIAN BACCHUS . Archaic style . Sard . 15. ERECTHEUS ABOUT TO SACRIFICE HIS DAUGHTER CHTHONIA beneath the sacred olive - tree : a female seen ...
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... wears the hide of the Citharonian lion , which he slew at the age of nineteen . This he afterwards discarded for the invulnerable skin of the lion of Nemea . Such youthful heads are usually , but wrongly , described as of Iole or ...
... wears the hide of the Citharonian lion , which he slew at the age of nineteen . This he afterwards discarded for the invulnerable skin of the lion of Nemea . Such youthful heads are usually , but wrongly , described as of Iole or ...
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