Head of the Roman messenger god Mercury in petasos hat or helmet. Etruscan Turms, Greek Hermes. From a cornelian gem. Mercurius Incis in Corneola. Copperplate engraving from Francesco Valesio, Antonio Gori and Ridolfino Venuti’s Academia Etrusca, Museum Cortonense in quo Vetera Monumenta, (Etruscan Academy or Museum of Cortona), Faustus Amideus, Rome, 1750.

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