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Forbes, \"The Princeton Art Museum's collection of classical and classicizing engraved gemstones,\" <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM> 54, no. 1 (1995): p. 23-29., p. 26; figs. 16-17","date":1995,"id":3057,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774715"},{"boilertext":"Barbara Ann&nbsp;Forbes,<EM> Catalogue of engraved gems in The Art Museum.</EM> Dissertation (Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley, 1978).","citation":"Barbara Ann&nbsp;Forbes,<EM> Catalogue of engraved gems in The Art Museum.</EM> Dissertation (Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley, 1978)., p. 106-08; pl. 24:97","date":1978,"id":2218,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/14122267"},{"boilertext":"D. A. Amyx, <I>Echoes from Olympus: reflections of divinity in small scale classical art,</I> (Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum, 1974).","citation":"D. A. 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Many of these gemstones were used as seals that their owners could press into clay or wax, leaving behind an impression of the engraved image. These impressions functioned as the owner’s signature in business, politics, and personal affairs. A gemstone’s material, the quality of its engraving, and the identity of its maker also demarcated its owner’s wealth and status. By the second half of the first century BCE, gems were also collectors’ objects or could function as votive objects that were given to a god. 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