While the signature "Epimenes made (it)" survives today on only one engraved gem, four other gems can be attributed to him on stylistic grounds. Epimenes worked in the period around 500 B.C. in the Cyclades, carving both scarabs and scaraboids. His work is distinctive: his gems are decorated with nude youths with the musculature clearly defined and naturalistically rendered. Epimenes was also note
