Centuria Séptima of Impronte Gemmarie dell’Instituto, and the Hermitage Engraved Gems from the North Pontic Area, Excavated in the mid-19th century
Journal: Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art
Year: 2015

The article is devoted to the content, the history, and the circumstances of creation of the centuria séptima of the collection of plaster casts from engraved gems — Impronte Gemmarie, published by the German Archaeological Institute in Rome in 1868. This part of the seven-volume collection of casts, which mainly contains casts of Etruscan scarabs, for the first time since 1829, the year when the series started being published, prints of gems and fingerings found during archaeological excavation