Glyptik the word "Glyptik" is derived from the old-Greek "glyphein". This meant as much as "scoop out, out-carve" and/or "into the stone entrench" and designates in the broadest sense the stone cut art. The antique Glyptik is arranged into epochs and style characteristics as follows:

• Greek-geometrical Glyptik,
• Kypri Glyptik,
• "Island stones", griech. Gemmen 7. /6. Jh. Vth Chr.,
• and Greek 6. Jh. Vth Chr.,
• Greek arachaische Glyptik 6. and early 5. Jh. Vth Chr.,
• Greek-classical Glyptik 5. /4. Jh. Vth Chr.,
• Graeco Persian Gemmen,
• Hellenisti Gemmen,
• Etruski
• Italian and Roman-republican Gemmen,
• Gemmen of the Roman Kaiser era,
• Gnosti Gemmen,
• Sassanidi seals,
• Christian Gemmen of late ancient times and the Middle Ages and modern Gemmen.

One calls a collection Glyptothek

In the history of art one speaks engraved stones of "Gemmen" = as generic term. All the same whether raised or deepened engraves. In the jewel trade however divided into the term: "Gemme" = deepens and = raised cut. One speaks of engraved or cut stones.

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