Priest in Roman peasant dress of hat, cloak, and sandals before an altar (perhaps to Priapus, rustic fertility god). From an engraved chalcedony gem in the collection of Ridolfino Venuti. Sacerdos Rusticus in Calce. ap Rodulph Venuti Corton. 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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