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Перевод: chalcedony

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халцедон

Тезаурус:

1. Five stones - lapis lazuli, chalcedony, agate, haematite and steatite - are common to Classical Greece and the early civilizations.
2. Though of miniature format, portraits on coins and gems could be impressively characterised: witness the image of Gaius Antius Restio, Tribune of the People in 71 BC and portrayed on a coin of his descendant minted in 47 BC, or an unknown man whose authoritative portrait was brilliantly engraved in chalcedony.
3. Other stones used by Egyptian goldsmiths included amethyst, rock-crystal, obsidian, chalcedony, jasper and garnet.
4. Again, lapis lazuli and different varieties of chalcedony, to which the ancients were strongly attached, fall into his fourth grade along with amethyst and rock-crystal.
5. The octopus was a popular and recurring artistic motif, which suggests that it too was fished; the chalcedony intaglio mentioned above confirms that this was so.
6. Another, a chalcedony intaglio, shows a muscular fisherman proudly holding a skaros in one hand and an octopus in the other (Figure 35).
7. One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments.
8. In each of the early civilizations the emphasis rested on opaque or translucent stones, in China on jade, but elsewhere on different forms of chalcedony, lapis lazuli and turquoise, the qualities of each of which could be displayed effectively by the simple process of polishing their surfaces smooth.
9. Flint is regarded by geologists as a particular form of chert, a chalcedony: that is, a material which is almost pure silica with small inclusions of water.
10. Several varieties of chalcedony, a silica in crystalline form, translucent and sometimes transparent, waxy to the touch, hard and extremely enduring, were treasured for jewellery, amulets and seal-stones from the earliest civilizations of the Old World down to the present time.
11. Designs incorporating fish, birds, bulls, people, gods, goddesses, schematized buildings of various kinds, ships, and elaborate ritual scenes were carved into an astonishing range of materials: ivory, bone, agate, carnelian, haematite, jasper, chalcedony, lapis lazuli and even rock crystal, amethyst and obsidian.
12. (c) Unknown man: chalcedony intaglio in the traditional Republican style, made in the 1st century BC (bottom left).
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