Roman hero Hercules subduing the three-headed hellhound Cerberus. From an engraved cornelian gem. Hercules Cerberum Domans in Corn 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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