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The art or process of carving or engraving especially on gems.

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  • Sculpture in stone, whether granite, gem, or marble, while we accurately use the general term "glyptic" for it, may be thought of with, perhaps, the most clear force...
  • Sculpture in stone, whether granite, gem, or marble, while we accurately use the general term 'glyptic' for it, may be thought of with, perhaps, the most clear force...
  • With us, wood has almost completely disappeared as a glyptic material.
  • The glyptic art of Greece had been paralleled hundreds of years before it was born.
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