Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scalptor

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SCALP'TOR. An artist who executes with the chisel (scalprum), as in the annexed illustration (Scalptor/1.1) from an engraved gem found at Pompeii, which represents an artist at work upon a marble vase. Scholars differ greatly in opinion respecting the accurate meaning of the two words Scalptor and Sculptor; some considering them to be purely synonymous (B. Crusius, Clavis Suet. s. Scalpere); others that the first designates an engraver of gems only, the latter a sculptor of marble (Ernesti ad Suet. Aug. 50. Nero, 46.); others that the scalptor means an artist who executes coarser or commoner kinds of work than the sculptor (Oudendorp, ad Suet. Galb. 10.); and others leave the matter in doubt as one which cannot be decided. (Bremi ad Suet. Aug. 50. Heindorf. ad Hor. Sat. ii. 3. 22.) Thus the term is used to designate a gem engraver (Plin. H. N. xxxvii. 15. scalptor gemmarum); a sculptor (Id. xxxvi. 5. scalptor marmorum); and an artist who makes the dies for coins. (Inscript. ap. Marin. Iscriz. Alb. p. 109. scalptor monetae.)

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  Scalptor/1.1