Antique gems and rings . d inventor. Page 43.—Tetradrachm of Athens : given to exemplify the difference between thepure Greek and Greco-Italian borderings upon coins. Page 73.—Silenus instructing Bacchus in religion. Sard. {Muirhead.) Page 81.—The Piccolomini Rmg (p. 373). The material is not mentioned byMontfaucon, but is probably crystal. Its use may have been to fasten the dress, theends of which were drawn through the opening, or it may have been a staticulum. Page 82.—Supposed portrait of Eobert Bruce, within a cordeliere, or Franciscanrope-cincture; engraved in a solid gold ring, found o

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Antique gems and rings . d inventor. Page 43.—Tetradrachm of Athens : given to exemplify the difference between thepure Greek and Greco-Italian borderings upon coins. Page 73.—Silenus instructing Bacchus in religion. Sard. {Muirhead.) Page 81.—The Piccolomini Rmg (p. 373). The material is not mentioned byMontfaucon, but is probably crystal. Its use may have been to fasten the dress, theends of which were drawn through the opening, or it may have been a staticulum. Page 82.—Supposed portrait of Eobert Bruce, within a cordeliere, or Franciscanrope-cincture; engraved in a solid gold ring, found on the Sparrow Muir, Dundee, in1790. Drawn to double the actual size. Page 84.—Signet of Q. Cornelius Lupus: ch-awn to the actual size, Sard.(Waterton.) Page 85.—Roman Keys, intended to be carried on the finger as rin:s. They wereconstructed to act by lifting, on the principle of our French latch-keys. Page 86.—The grand Ptolemaic Eagle of the Vienna Cabinet, carved upon a sard-onyx, nine inches in ( 85 )

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