She adds, “I think [medieval people] probably would have thought it was from the Mediterranean and the Crusades and not Roman, as in Roman Britain.” Roman intaglio, or engraved gem ...

The seal matrix belonged to a medieval gentleman called ... of the seal is made from silver whilst the gem is a piece of carved red jasper, engraved in the Roman period around the first century ...

These are edited extracts of that conversation. WAGNER The first engraved gems were what’s called intaglios — where the design is carved into the gem or glass. They were used as seals ...

Burges was fascinated by the architecture of Medieval Europe ... semi-precious stones and engraved gems that Burges collected on his travels. The lion's head on the handle is made from mother ...

The discovered stones are known as intaglios which are objects, usually gems, with a shape or figure engraved into them. An intaglio is the opposite of a cameo on which the image is raised and ...

Mike Kemp via Getty Images The small, semiprecious engraved gems are known as intaglios, which were first produced some 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Owners would press their intaglios into clay ...

Christie’s is pleased to announce Part III of Masterpieces in Miniature: Ancient Engraved Gems Formerly in the G. Sangiorgi Collection. Spanning the Greek, Roman and Etruscan worlds from 1700 B.C.-3rd ...

Anna Giecco It is believed the gems dropped out of the signet rings of bathers The engraved gems, known as intaglios, are only a few millimetres in diameter and ended up being flushed into the ...

A Roman gems expert has claimed the British Museum was warned about thefts several years ago, but didn't properly investigate. Professor Martin Henig, a specialist in engraved gems, said he and a ...