Greek god Apollo with lyre and knife standing next to the satyr Marsyas tied to a tree under a double flute or aulos. Marsyas was flayed alive. Apulu, chthonic sky god, to the Etruscans. From an engraved agate gem. Apollo et Marsia. Incis in Achate. 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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