Philetaerus, founder of the Attalid dynasty of rulers of Pergamon, Anatolia, BC. A eunoch, he adopted his nephew Eumones I to succeed him. Philataerus. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his L’Academia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

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