Venus, Roman goddess of love, offering a ball to Cupid. The Etruscan goddess of love and fertility was Turan. From an engraved cornelian gem. Venus Inci. 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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