The Egyptian god Canopus, a human head on a hydra. It is seated on a griffon, a winged lion with the head of an eagle, with one paw on a sun wheel. Canopus in cornelian. Canopo in corgnola. 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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