Striking similarities of form and artistic execution between the early Glyptic and toreutic work of Ionia and Cilicia respectively have been mentioned in the last chapter; and it need only be added here, in conclusion, that if Cilicia had relations with Ionia as early as the opening of the seventh century-relations sufficient to lead to alliance in war and to modification of native arts-it is natural enough that she should be found allied a few years later with Lydia rather than with Media.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
But with the plunge into brilliant but faulty execution of one of her "pieces," her little face would flood over and tighten up into the Glyptic immobility of a cameo and her toes curl as they pressed the pedals.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
The coins already mentioned, and the numerous works of Glyptic art surviving in the galleries of Europe, will help us to place ourselves at the same point of view as the least enlightened of his antique votaries.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds