Roman god Mercury with caduceus and rooster. In Etruscan religion, messenger god and god of trade Turms. Roman Mercury, Greek Hermes. From an engraved agate gem. Mercurius in Achate ap March. de Venutis. 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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