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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 12574506, member: 5833&quot;]Not in the least idiotic, just a resource you would probably enjoy exploring.&nbsp; Unfortunately, due to deaths &amp; budget cuts, I don&#039;t think anyone is actively tending to it anymore &amp; it has become even more awkward to use than it used to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>The B&amp;W pic is from the Beazley Archive at Oxford&#039;s Classical Art Research Center (CARC).&nbsp; They photographed the huge collection of impressions of engraved gems taken by James Tassie, catalogued by Rudolf Erich Raspe at the end of the 18th century.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/gems/James-Tassie" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/gems/James-Tassie" rel="nofollow">https://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/gems/James-Tassie</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I most often start with the Index because I&#039;m usually looking for images of a particular subject.&nbsp; When I find a promising entry, I enter the number into the search box &amp; take a look at the plate.&nbsp; To learn more about impressions of interest I look at the corresponding text.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless your eyes are very good, the first thing you might want to do is to increase the image size.&nbsp; The default setting has become very small.&nbsp; The Index is in French, but so many entries are proper names, very similar in French &amp; English, this isn&#039;t much of an issue.&nbsp; The Text is in both English &amp; French.&nbsp; Raspe tends to favor Roman names over Greek, so the lady that prompted your question is listed as Minerva.&nbsp; Cupid/Eros (cupids/erotes) is under Amour(s).&nbsp; The catalogue dates to the time when the letter S, when it occurs in a position other than the end of a word, is written with a character that looks more like a lower case F&nbsp; Words starting with I or J are listed together.</p><p><br /></p><p>[Sometimes the site is glitchy &amp; you have to find a workaround.&nbsp; Requesting the Text for 1647 gets an error message; you can bring it up by asking for 1602.]</p><p><br /></p><p>This should give you something to do while it&#039;s too hot to go outside.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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