G E M Sw 
queen aaien —_ sae to fettle in son erred nce — 
a beautiful c n the cabin 
ame author is 
of opinion, that Julien de Fontenay and Coldoré were no 
rivals, as it has been {uppofed, but one and the fame e perfon 
—Maurice, t ether- 
ood ik ae see at Rouen, wher e he 
ery at Florence. 
d in pet gnats number of figures 
_Giulianelli is very high in his praife ; but 
a 
oO 
e are, in 
of engravings exec 
which a time eae in ig amber ie, ood gem en- 
eae i ever finc » been particularly de- 
cient in this clafs of por fo aa Millin (in 1797) con- 
fidered the glyptic art as abfolutely extin& in his country. 
T ere is, os at the prefent day, a {kilful e min in 
Paris of t e of Jeuflroy, whom - ha inititute 
has thought wo ay to receive among its 
- Thofe antique engraved ftones, that ie the name of the 
artift, having at all times been ioe upon as particularly 
interefting and valuable, feveral perfons have fraudulently 
availed themfelves of this circumitance to add the name of 
ome celebrated a, Seed of aoe el to works both o 
ancient a Spe es ae em —_ ar ac fo 
ern ti 
of Phedrus, who sea of i it in one of his ables. 
fhould not, therefore, confider ancient names on gems 
nuine, before the fevereft cri iticifm has pr 
FQ 
oe 
The great a mice 
a the ae — of {tone 
jaiper mutt 
hence the name eof Diofeorid ides on a comm 
Thofe 
thofe of the engravers 
of the Auguitan age, which are wk Sa = highly ey 
whence the name of Diofcorides, written in an unequal m 
can fearcely be the work of this great pate hae ; for ag me 
brated artilts, jealous of their reputation, even wath 1 regard to 
the minutiz A their art, did not trait others with the exect- 
a) 
3. 
re receptio 
fake of fattening the gold, with which he fuppofed the lol- 
low characters were filled up ; 3 but nothing proves that thefe 
— were intended to be filled up with a metal: they 
are cut 3 one in order to exprefs in reliévo the name, 
together with the i At the prefent day mott antiqua- 
ries agree in lappelag thefe dots to have been deftined to 
{cripts. 
infcription terminated by rour an 
quency with which they occur on them, it is probable that 
what was firft calculated to preduce uniformity, was after- 
w ‘ed as ornament: The form of the letters may 
likewife ferve te difcover fraud. The aaae of Greek with 
Latin letters is an evident fign of forgery. The fame oy be 
{aid of a letter expreffed in two different ways in the lame 
y are generally indifferent 
rammarians, and, therefore, liable to commit errors, which 
no artift of antiquity could have fallen into. 
by the esha me, they 
Y inftead of AIOCKOYPIAOY ; they a 
a letter a one ae and omit one in another. If an art 
i eee as il was 
itone, on w 
@1AoY, the a ig to be fap 
plied, i i. es the work of Aulus, Diofcorides, &c. If the 
e nominative cafe, it is the verb which is omitted, 
fe 
a ames occur in the fame c 
is the name, and the other the furname ; but where the 
enitive and the eond in the nomi- 
palladium, KAATIOY 
(Calpurnii Severi Felix faciebat,) it is very probable that. 
this Felix was the manumitted fervan t of Calpurnius Severus, 
and thou efe names are n, yet as he makes ufe o 
Greek letters, he likewile adopts the form of the Greek le 
one is a the joint work of tw 
rtifts n have produceda gem a 
the infcription AA®HO am "APEQONI pheus with 
Arethon). We have but one fingle inflance of an engraver 
who with his name has indicated his profeffion on the gem, and 
thisis A pollodotus; by the fide of the head of Minerva we read 
ATIOAAOAONT., AT@OO, (Arorrccore APoyauge sc. teyory} 0 
i work of Apo ollodotus the engraver). = e gre eateft part 
the names of e ae are Gree one inftanc 
haps the artift has added the name of his ne country ; for 
a ftone reprefenting the cap of Caftor between two ftars, 
we ibe ATIOA =MYP, which is explained “fepéllonides of 
Smirna; but it is probable that this engravit 1g is votive, and 
that, “initead. of the name ef the artift, it bears that of the 
navigator, who hoped by ar talifiman to obtain a fortunate 
a om ay fons 0 
names of Rom Gre avers are, for the greateft part, 
ee in Gr “i ice, — there are very few eure - 
Greek names being written in Latin charaéters; and e 
the five Theban chiefs, ai he en oueased ftones of the 
Greeks, on the other hand, bear the name of the artift, Fes 
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