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Ancient gems and finger rings : catalogue of the collection
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- Creator
- Jeffrey Spier
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Malibu, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780892362158, 0892362154
- OCLC
- ocn624431939, ocm24952961
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Foreword / John Walsh -- Catalogue. Guide to the Catalogue Descriptions. Shapes. Materials. Plates. Greek Gems. Minoan and Mycenaean Gems. Geometric and Archaic Gems. Classical and Hellenistic Gems: Fifth-Second Century B.C. Glass Scaraboids. Greek Rings. Archaic Rings. Classical and Hellenistic Rings. Western Rings. Decorative Rings. Bronze and Iron Rings. Ptolemaic Rings. Near Eastern and Phoenician Seals. The Lyre-Player Group Seals. Syro-Phoenician Seals. Graeco-Phoenician Scarabs. Graeco-Persian Gems. Achaemenid Glass Conoids, Scaraboids, and Tabloids. Achaemenid Rings. Etruscan Scarabs. Italic, Late Hellenistic, and Roman Gems. Italic Gems: Third-First Century B.C. Italic Pellet-Style Gems: First Century B.C. Italic Gems Without Pellets. Late Hellenistic, Eastern Gems. Early Imperial Classicizing Gems. Second-Third-Century-A.D. Gems. Roman Rings. Glass Gems. Roman Cameos. Sasanian Gems. Greek and Roman Sealings -- Materials Index -- Inscriptions Index -- Provenance Index -- Previous Collections Index -- Other Ancient Gems and Rings in the Getty Museum -- Concordance of accession numbers and catalogue numbers