The Nemean lion slain by Heracles in Greek mythology. From an engraved cornelian gem. Leo Nemaeus Incis. 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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