Three Etruscan mimes or actors in winged boots (rear view). Possibly performing an obscene play about adultery. From a bronze seal found in a field. Histriones Etrusci. Pars posterior in eodem Museo. 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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