Bust profile of Semiramis, the semi-legendary Lydian-Babylonian wife of general Onnes and Ninus, founder of Nineveh, later warrior queen of Assyria. Shammuramat. With wild uncombed hair and a manly face. In Sardinian agate. Semiramide in agata Sardonica. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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