356 DESCRIPTION OF THE TAIL-PIECES.
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346. Bust of a young lady of the times of Severus. The legend AMO TE
EGO sufficiently bespeaks the original destination of the gem ; an
exceptionally good engraving for that period. Sard.
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353. Melpomene, or Minerva Victrix, holding a palm-branch and seated
upon a pile of armour. She is apostrophizing a mask of the Horned
Bacchus, patron-god of the drama, whilst the " thymele," or theatrical
altar, blazes before her ; adjuncts all pointing out the gem as the
signet of some eminent tragedian. Sard.
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356. Mole-cricket, carrying a cornucopia, whence issue Capricorn and a
bee. These three emblems of Earth, Water, and Air. combine in this
talisman to produce the fecundity expressed by the wheat-sheaf in the claw of the insect-porter. Sardoine.
Page 364. Medusa, in the grandest Greek manner. Peridot.
