gems, ancient gemology, early gemology, ancient mineralogy, glyptic, cameos

Contents: The Portland Vase: an aspect of Roman cameo cutting / David Whitehouse and Kenneth Painter — Ancient cameos in the Content Family Collection / Martin Henig — Late Antique cameos c. A.D. 250-260 / Jeffrey Spier — Cameos in Byzantium / Cyril Mango and Marlia Mundell Mango — Rubens and the Cameo of TIberius / Christopher White — Portrait cameos: aspects of their history and function / Gertrud Seidmann.