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| Paul-Jean-Étienne Balze Study of Hands ca. 1860 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Olle Bauman Hand and Figure IV 1967 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Edgar Fernhout Hands of the Artist 1930 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Hand Studies ca. 1588-89 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jens Juel Study of foreshortened Hand and Arm ca. 1801 drawing (colored chalks) Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Johann Peter Krafft Study of Hand ca. 1820 drawing Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Adolph Menzel Artist's Hand with Paint Cup 1864 watercolor and gouache on paper Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Pål-Nils Nilsson Handverkekts - 60 tal Nationalmuseum, Stockholm 1968 lithograph (proof of poster, without lettering) Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Sheet of Studies ca. 1834 drawing (studies for painting, The Martyrdom of St Symphorien) Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne |
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| Francesco del Cossa Study of Sculpted Foot ca. 1470-75 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Hellenistic Culture in Asia Minor Foot of colossal Cult Statue, housed within a Temple 3rd century BC marble (excavated at Pergamon) Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Hellenistic Culture in Egypt Foot of colossal Seated Statue 150-50 BC marble (excavated in Egypt) Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Michel Martin Drölling Study of Foot and Leg ca. 1840-50 drawing High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Titian Sheet of Studies ca. 1519-20 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| František Tkadlík Study of Lower Legs 1818 drawing Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Per Hasselberg Study of Legs cfa. 1890 drawing Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
Now Diogenes, who is also called Antonius, presents Dinias recounting all these marvelous things to Cymbas, and at the same time he writes to Faustinus that he is composing a work about the wonders beyond Thule and that he is dedicating it to his learned sister Isidora. He says of himself that he is the author of an ancient story and that even though he is fabricating wondrous and false things, he has the authority, for his numerous stories, of older writers, from whose work he has compiled his collection, at the cost of much labor. He cites at the beginning of each book the names of the persons who treated its subject previously so that the incredible events would not seem to lack authority.
At the beginning of the work he addresses a letter to his sister Isidora. In it, he explains that he has dedicated the work to her, but he presents Balagrus writing to his wife, Phila, the daughter of Antipater, that after Tyre had been taken by King Alexander of Macedonia, and most of it had been consumed by fire, a soldier went to Alexander and said that he would show him a strange and incredible sight outside the city. The king took with him Hephaestion and Parmenion, and they followed the soldier. They came upon stone subterranean grave vaults, one of which was inscribed, "Lysilla lived thirty-five years"; another, "Mnason the son of Mantinias lived sixty-six years of seventy-one"; another, "Aristion the son of Philocles lived forty-seven years of fifty-two"; another, "Mantinias the sone of Mnason lived forty-two years and 707 nights"; another, "Dercyllis the daughter of Mnason lived thirty-nine years and 760 nights"; the sixth grave vault, "Dinias the Arcadian lived 125 years."
While still in a state of confusion caused by all these epitaphs except for the first, which was clear, they came upon a small cypress box beside a wall. On the box was written, "Stranger, whoever you are, open this box to learn what will amaze you." On opening the box, Alexander and his companions found the cypress tablets that, it seems, Dercyllis had buried at Dinias's orders.
– Antonius Diogenes, from The Wonders Beyond Thule, written in Greek, 1st-2nd century AD. A detailed summary of the book was composed (also in Greek) in the 9th century by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople. The original text by Antonius Diogenes was subsequently lost; only the summary by Photius has survived. This was translated into English by Gerald N. Sandy (1989).