Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or process of carving or engraving on precious stones.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or process of carving or engraving, particularly of engraving on gems or the like.
- noun A description of the art of gemengraving.
- noun The knowledge of engraved gems.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The art or process of engraving on precious stones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun art
carving orengraving onprecious stone
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun carvings or engravings (especially on precious stones)
- noun carving or engraving (especially on stones)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tate Gallery, from Felix Summerley to a Hollyer photograph, from the introduction of glyptography to the pictures in the _Daily Chronicle_, demand notice.
Children's Books and Their Illustrators Gleeson White 1874
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Etruscan glyptography has not a transitional period, 140.
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. Isaac Myer 1869
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There is one peculiarity to be noted in the glyptography of the
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. Isaac Myer 1869
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We may therefore divide Etruscan glyptography into:
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. Isaac Myer 1869
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B.C.,) the Dynasty in which lived the Amen-em-hats and the Usertsens, the great early art period of the Egyptian empire, [26] the Egyptians engraved on amethyst, jasper and rock crystal, and at that early period did some of the most beautiful work remaining to us of their glyptography.
Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. Isaac Myer 1869
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