GEMS. 
of particular beauty, fuppofed by Bracci to be that of 
eopatra; an athlete rubbing himfelf with oil preparatory 
to the combat ; a beautiful Juno ; anuvina, or rather, ac- 
Winkelmann, a Thefeus, having his head covere 
¢ bull of Marathon, or that of the lion, ac- 
cording to lear 2) but thein{cription is fuppofed to be 
by the celebrated Pichler.—Diofcorides (AIOZKOYPIAHE), 
A pollonides, Chron ne Diofcorides are, next to ai ome 
teles, the thre 
liny. Tere wa er Auguftus what Pyrgotees 
was xander. Several es — remain o 
me ie - = has figured fe fev - 
gu n head, by Ba ndelot 2 he the head 
fai 
of Mec ee chee Stofch fuppofes to be that of Cicero; 
Mercury, as ‘god of travellers, with his petafus, caduceus, and 
penula (in the colle&ion of lord Holdernefs, aaa to 
Winkelmann) ; Perfeus viewing the head of . Brac- 
ci has added fome ; fuch the head of in. 3 eee ius 
iophorus, i. e. cat rying a ram, all works of fuperior beauty a 
and excellence. The two laft have been copied by Natter, 
The name 
attributed to Diofcorides is the production of one and the 
fame raver 5 ; an he confiders his Io as one of the fineit en- 
gravings in exiftence. Another beautiful work of this artift 
is Demolt ene on an amethyit, w. aa ane and Winkel- 
mann have loo upon as an unknow onti has’ 
difcovered the a country of Diofcorides ; on an engraving 
of Eutyches his difciple, or rather his fon: it reprefents 
Minerva with the infcription EYTYXHC AIOCKOYPIAOY 
AIPAl€m@c EM (Eutyches Diofcoridis egal faciebat ) 5 fr om 
which it appears that he Egea, a a, 
in Afia Minor. —Fpitynchanue (GMITYTXA) ; a headof cd 
are 
e fepul-hres of the comets of the houfe 
: both have there the title “ aurifex,’” old- 
XHC AITAIG@l Ef) fone or mol of 
Diofcorides, perhaps ons, ae an M.Tortoli atRome 
pofleffes a fine intaglio en fardonyx, reprefenting Minerva, 
by this artift. Scien (COAwN ENOIET; anpere It is this 
ted legiflat mift 
Solon is fo oe inane ee see ices rues to him) 
the author ofa fing he ad of Med 
The 
of AEAIOC), © 
fefs the ras of that emperor, an excellen ae avi wae which, 
by fome is coated as the portrait of Cajus 
As con sue aay with Cia, Millin introduces Alpheus 
and Arethon (AA®HOE ZTN APE@ONI). There are exam- 
ples of groups of flatues being the apie of two artifts ; 
but there are no gems engraved by.two matters, except in 
— prefent inftance : one reprefents Comune and A grip-. 
pina, which Montfaucon, deceived by the fimilarity of the: 
nathes, confidered as portraits of Germanicus and Semper: 
in the character of Alphxus and Arethufa. Fs other 
their joint produdtion is the tie of t 
manicus, the young Caligula. _ heeu: 
ciated himfelf in his works 
minent aoa of the time of Titus are 
Euodus "(RYoAeC Emel). are scsi artifls of 
this name; the one here mentioned has engraved on a ftone, 
which is {uppofed an aquamarin, (vide fipe.) ae portrait of 
Julia, daughter of ‘Titus and Pane celebrated for her 
amours with Domitian. The fize and beauty o of the ftone 
the high firiifh of the work, the refemblance of the feature 
and the eae . the oo render this gem ver 
remarkable. It the collection of gems of the aes 
aes at Paris. Nene (NIKANEPOY) 3 : a head of 
ulia. 
The engravers of Hadrian's time are: Antiochus Seaton 
a Minerva Bellatrix. A head, fuppofed to be that of 
Sabina, ° emprefs of Tadrian, j is likewife attributed to him + 
h 
portrait 
Hercules plac aecording, to auth 
is a flave who carries a large calf for a facrifice. It is now 
the'colleCtion of the duke of pec na ots {E fret 
who has engraved an Akntinous as Harpoc 
urbre poflefies a firft rate intaglio, reprefenting” 
acchus intoxicated by the juice of the grape, with the 
Phrygian cup near him, fufpended from a tree. It is by 
an artilt of the name of Aepolianus, but not the fame with 
n the preceding; for, from the letter oP added to his namé, 
it she te that he was a pupil, or fon, of Phrynicus, 
r Phronymus: nor is it probable that this beautiful en- 
gravng fhould . the wor 
— 
che neon 
ment of the decline of ie art, critics have placed a Gauranus 
rtifts, o om the period i 
cannot be see. are the following :— 
who ee aved the eer head of Priam 
edukeof Devonfhire—Agam 
Stofch and Bracci have om him as 
Polycletes. He has pYoduced a fine 
which is preferved in the juft mentioned colleGtion. The 
form of the E not being in the manner of the C, renders the 
a fufpicious.—Allion (AAATONG(. and AAAION ). 
as engraved a female guitar-player ; if this be intended 
roe ra mufe, as is the eae of Bracci, it muit bea Terpfi- 
chore: this will appear from a co 
bee pas of Her iene aneum, and 
e Muieo Pio Clementin 
which are iver - CO a after th nine 
fieeve, St 
of Allion,. as io that 
e the eee igure 
of Chrosin and of Onefas, al 
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