Allegorical figure of Rome, with spear, cloak, crested Corinthian helmet, Victoria and globe. She is surrounded by birds and the she-wolf Lupa nursing the twins Romulus and Remus. From an engraved cornelian gem. Roma 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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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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