Excerpt from Engraved Gems: Signets, Talismans and Ornamental Intaglios, Ancient and Modern The use of the cylinder spread over western Asia and Egypt, where Menes, the first king of the upper and lower countries, had such a Signet. At a later time the Asiatic favored a conical seal, also pierced and suspended, but the study of these forms, together with the mythology and writ ings pictured on them, is a separate branch of the subject calling for the Oriental specialist, and the work of Dr. William Hayes Ward fills the field most satisfactorily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.