Pyrgotĕles
(
Πυργοτέλης). A celebrated Greek engraver of gems who
flourished in the fourth century B.C., in the reign of Alexander the Great, who admired him so
much as to allow no other artist to engrave the royal seal-rings (Pliny ,
Pliny H. N. vii. 125; xxxvii. 8). See
Gemma.