ARMENIAN MINIATURES IN STONES
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In Armenia, a country of stones "Karastan",
all kinds of stones known in the world are met. There are more than
eight hundred deposits. Since ancient times Armenia was famous for
its monumental constructions as well as for processing of precious
stones. Very rich collections of beautiful decorations made of agates,
serdolike, chalcedone, garnet, amber can be met in the museums of
Armenia. This collections date to III-I centuries before our era.
Different kinds of metals and stones had been exported from Armenia
to Ancient Egypt, Aravia, Europe.
Among the great variety of half
precious stones agates are very famous. However among the great
variety of agates which we meet, landscape agates are unsurpassed.
There are unique landscape agate collections in many famous museums
of the world and they are exposed side by side with diamond, ruby,
emerald. One can see on landscape agates pictures created by nature
and such stones are valued very high. Thus, Pliny the Senior described
an agate, which belonged to the king Pirru, where one can see
"The nine muses and Appolon with his lyre".
Taking
into consideration the harmony of colors, the beauty, extraordinarily
of pictures, landscape agates are considered to be the best in
the world by experts on stones.
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