Carnelian was used widely during Roman times to make engraved gems for signet or seal rings for imprinting a seal with wax on correspondence or other important documents.

Carnelian Gemstone | gem imprint representing Socrates, Rome, 1st century BC-1st century AD.

Characters from the Cornelius novels show up in much of Moorcock's other fiction: " The Dancers at the End of Time " series has a character called Jherek Carnelian who is the son of Lord Jagged of Canaria, and there are several hints in the series that Lord Jagged may be a guise of Jerry Cornelius ; the Cornelius-series character Una Persson also appears in the " Dancers " series and the Oswald Bastable books, and may also be the character Oona in the later Elric books ; Colonel Pyat has his own non-SF series of books by Moorcock, beginning with Byzantium Endures.

* The Carnelian Cube ( 1948 ) with L. Sprague de Camp

He seems to have a somewhat familiar relationship with Carnelian but how far the familiarity goes is never explained.

Diamond " kills " him while invading Soleil but Carnelian later returns, albeit with scars from the experience.

Roman Intaglio ( printmaking ) | intaglio engraved gem of Caracalla in amethyst, once in the Treasury of Sainte-Chapelle.

; engraved gems and gem impressions ; legends written with pigment on pottery ( rare ); characters incised on stone or pottery.

Cameo is a method of carving an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel made in this manner.

The most famous stone " state cameos " from this period are the Gemma Augustea, the Gemma Claudia made for the Emperor Claudius, and the largest flat engraved gem known from antiquity, the Great Cameo of France.

Sunk relief technique is not to be confused with " counter-relief " or intaglio as seen on engraved gem seals — where an image is fully modelled in a " negative " manner.

The Gemma Augustea ( Latin, Gem of Augustus ) is a low-relief cameo engraved gem cut from a double-layered Arabian onyx stone.

The words are separated by engraved dots, a common but by no means universal practice, and long vowels are marked by Apex ( diacritic ) | apices.

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek lead sling bullets with a winged thunderbolt engraved on one side and the inscription " ΔΕΞΑΙ " ( Dexai ) meaning " take that " or " catch " on the other side, 4th century BC, from Athens, British Museum.

File: White-House. jpg | Jefferson and Latrobe's West Wing Colonnade in this nineteenth-century engraved view, is now the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.

Hubert-François Gravelot | Gravelot illustration of Aaron cutting off Titus's hand in Act 3, Scene 1 ; engraved by Gerard Van der Gucht ( 1740 )

Leslie illustration of Act 4, Scene 3 from the The Illustrated London News | Illustrated London News, 3 Nov. 1886 ; engraved by William Luson Thomas

William Quiller Orchardson's illustration of Sly and the Lord in the Induction, engraved by Charles William Sharpe ; from the Imperial Edition of The Works of Shakespere, edited by Charles Knight ( publisher ) | Charles Knight ( 1876 )

Julius Caesar Ibbetson illustration of Act 4, Scene 5 ( Petruchio insists the moon is shining and Ketherina agrees ) from Boydell Shakespeare Gallery | The Boydell Shakespeare Prints ; engraved by Isaac Taylor ( 1759 – 1829 ) | Isaac Taylor ( 1803 ).

File: A plan of Worcester Cathedral made in 1836 ( engraved by B. Winkles after a drawing by Benjamin Baud ).. jpg | 1836 Cathedral floorplan

File: Ring maenad Louvre Bj1052. jpg | Ring with the engraved representation of a maenad.

Repoussé and engraved relief of Hercules and Iolaus on the Ficoroni cista. 4th century BC Etruscan civilization | Etruscan ritual vessel

Image: Peterborough engraved by Daniel King. jpg | 17th century view

In 2004, initials of VGN founders Henry H. Rogers | Henry Huttleston Rogers and William N. Page | William Nelson Page were engraved by volunteers in newly laid rail at Victoria, Virginia, where former VGN caboose # 342 is now displayed

File: Meckenem. jpg | Delicate engraved lines of hatching and cross-hatching, not all distinguishable in reproduction, are used to model the faces and clothes in this late 15th century engraving

Reproduction based on a rubbing of the inscription, which is Intaglio ( printmaking ) | intaglio engraved on bronze.

Duncan, engraved portrait by John Kay ( caricaturist ) | John Kay dated 1797

Image: Gate_1_1786. jpg | Copper engraved view from Boswell's Antiquities published in London by Alexander Hogg, 1786

Image: Gate_2_1786. jpg | Copper engraved view from Boswell's Antiquities published in London by Alexander Hogg, 1786

David Hewes burial vault at Mountain View Cemetery ( Oakland, California ) | Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA. A second golden spike, exactly like the one from the ceremony, was cast and engraved at the same time.

The College of Arms, as it looked in the 18th century, engraved by Benjamin Cole ( instrument maker ) | Benjamin Cole, and published in William Maitland's " The History and Survey of London From Its Evolution to the Present Time " in 1756

Henry Flood, portrait drawn by John Comerford and engraved by James Heath ( engraver ) | James Heath.

Amethyst was used as a gemstone by the ancient Egyptians and was largely employed in antiquity for intaglio engraved gems.

As a printing technology, lithography is different from intaglio printing ( gravure ), wherein a plate is either engraved, etched, or stippled to score cavities to contain the printing ink ; and woodblock printing, and letterpress printing, wherein ink is applied to the raised surfaces of letters or images.

A Petroglyph is an intaglio abstract or symbolic image engraved on natural stone by various methods, usually by prehistoric peoples.

With the exception of service marks for the Council of Europe and the Cuban stamp, all stamps were engraved by Wolfgang Seidel and by the Austrian State Printing Office in a complex combination printing process produces ( intaglio printing, rotogravure printing, as well as metal stamping ).

Ludwig Ross, the German archaeologist appointed Curator of the Antiquities of Athens at the time of the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, by his explorations in the Greek islands from 1835 onwards, called attention to certain early intaglio engraved gems, since known as Inselsteine ; but it was not until 1878 that C. T. Newton demonstrated these to be no strayed Phoenician products.

She is functionally related to the God Bonus Eventus, who is often represented as her counterpart: both appear on amulets and intaglio engraved gems across the Roman world.

The illustrations were also created using engraved copper plates ( called intaglio ), which allowed for very fine detail ( see ' Scientific Revolutions ' by Brian S. Baigrie, pages 40-49 for more information and a translation of Vesalius ' preface ).

The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

In the attic above the richly sculptured frieze of soldiers are 30 shields engraved with the names of major Revolutionary and Napoleonic military victories.

alt = An engraved print showing a man in a distinctive naval uniform dragging two crocodiles with human heads.

The bequest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode in 1800 did much to raise the Museum's reputation ; but Montagu House became increasingly crowded and decrepit and it was apparent that it would be unable to cope with further expansion.

In this reality, the only proof that Charles Xavier ever existed is a secret monument in Magneto's palace garden, with the engraved message " He died so Genosha could live ".

Their pins were usually shaped to suggest a branch of service and engraved with the soldier's name and unit.

The UK Armed Forces currently utilize two circular non reflecting stainless steel tags engraved with the " Big 6 ":

* The Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a sheep's liver representing the sky, with the engraved names of the gods ruling different sections.

The materials are mainly dark red carnelian, with agate and sard entering usage from the 3rd to the 1st centuries BC, along with purely gold finger rings with a hollow engraved bezel setting.

In many versions, Excalibur's blade was engraved with words on opposite sides.

The ring, engraved with the Seal of Solomon, had the power to bind demons from doing harm.

She wanted to have the watch engraved with the words, " To Pork from the O ' Hara's — Well done good and faithful servant ," but Pork declined the offer.

By far the most exquisite and obscure artefacts unearthed to date are the small, square steatite ( soapstone ) seals engraved with human or animal motifs.

Foreign printed sources such as the Descriptions des Arts et Métiers and Diderot's Encyclopédie explained foreign methods with fine engraved plates.

The statue, by Charles Hadcock, depicts a roll of film with the face of Frankenstein's monster engraved into the frames, and the names of his most famous films etched into a cast concrete base in the shape of film canisters.

While modern keycaps are typically surface-printed, they can also be 2-shot molded, laser printed, sublimation printed, engraved, or they can be made of transparent material with printed paper inserts.

The Hillsborough memorial, which is engraved with the names of the 96 people who died in the Hillsborough disaster.

The friezes of the limestone-clad buildings around Killian Court are engraved with the names of important scientists and philosophers.

She also made the annual presentation of engraved silver cigarette cases ( with DeBeck's characters etched on the cover ) to the eight winners spanning the years 1946 to 1953.

In the 15th century Ptolemy's Geographia began to be printed with engraved maps ; the earliest printed edition with engraved maps was produced in Bologna in 1477, followed quickly by a Roman edition in 1478 ( Campbell, 1987 ).