including a brown agate domed oval example with an eagle’s head, a sea creature below, a fish in front, a crescent and stars in the field and a Greek inscription above, 18mm.; a banded agate example with a bull, bearing its horns, 18mm.; a carnelian example with a ram before two leafy sprigs, 11mm.; another carnelian example with a grazing stag, 15mm.; a red jasper example with a prancing horse, 12mm., slightly chipped,; a green agate with a grazing horse, 12mm.; a banded agate example with a goat standing before a basin on which two birds perch, 14mm.; a carnelian intaglio with a central krater from which a leafy bough emerges, a cockerel to one side a cornucopia to the other, 14mm.; a carnelian intaglio with a finely feathered spread-winged eagle standing on a slain hare, a snake entwined, 12mm.; a carnelian example with Leda and the swan, 12mm.; an agate intaglio with a hippocamp with a trident, 12mm. and seventeen other intaglios in carnelian, agate, nicolo and other stones, variously inscribed with animals and birds, including a tiny nicolo example with a tortoise, 7mm., the others, minimum 7mm., maximum 15mm. (28)
including a brown agate domed oval example with an eagle’s head, a sea creature below, a fish in front, a crescent and stars in the field and a Greek inscription above, 18mm.; a banded agate example with a bull, bearing its horns, 18mm.; a carnelian example with a ram before two leafy sprigs, 11mm.; another carnelian example with a grazing stag, 15mm.; a red jasper example with a prancing horse, 12mm., slightly chipped,; a green agate with a grazing horse, 12mm.; a banded agate example with a goat standing before a basin on which two birds perch, 14mm.; a carnelian intaglio with a central krater from which a leafy bough emerges, a cockerel to one side a cornucopia to the other, 14mm.; a carnelian intaglio with a finely feathered spread-winged eagle standing on a slain hare, a snake entwined, 12mm.; a carnelian example with Leda and the swan, 12mm.; an agate intaglio with a hippocamp with a trident, 12mm. and seventeen other intaglios in carnelian, agate, nicolo and other stones, variously inscribed with animals and birds, including a tiny nicolo example with a tortoise, 7mm., the others, minimum 7mm., maximum 15mm. (28)
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