Antique Intaglios In The Hermitage Collection - książka wyd. 1976

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The art of glyptics, or carving on coloured semiprecious stones, is probably one of oldest known to man. Intaglios, gems with an incised design, were made as early as the fourth and third millennia B.

C. in Mesopotamia and the Aegean Islands. They display a virtuosity of execution that suggests an old and stable tradition rooted in the earliest centuries.