To easily and surely position and fix a cylindrical article to be engraved, and precisely engrave initials or the like on the surface.

This engraving device is equipped with a pedestal 1, a cutter 2 which is arranged at the confronted location to the pedestal 1, and a driving mechanism 3 which relatively moves the cutter 2 along a specified pattern, to the pedestal 1, and an cylindrical article to be engraved is mounted and fixed on a mounting part 12 which is set on the pedestal 1, and to the article to be engraved, the blade edge 2a of the cutter 2 is driven into, and an engraving of a specified pattern is applied on the surface for the constitution. Then, in this case, a slit S is formed between a pair of slopes which tilt the mounting part 12 from the upper part to the lower part in the directions gradually coming closer to each other.