Pergamus, son of the warrior Neoptolemus and Andromache, mythical founder of the city of Pergamum. Depicted as an adult with long beard in an oval carnelian gem. Also identified as Hyacinthus, but the hair is not in the Laconian style. Pergamo. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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