Solon, Athenian statesman, constitutional lawmaker and poet, BC. Depicted as an old man of about 80. Engraved gem in cornelian. Solon 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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