A priestess making a sacrifice to health and hygiene. Etruscan woman places a snake in a bucket to one of the Greek goddesses Hygieia, Panacea, Iaso, and Aceso, daughters of the god of medicine Asclepius. From a white jasper gem. Sacrificium Saluti in Jaspide Candido. 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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