Achillas with Pompey the Great's head on a platter. The Egyptian general killed Pompey and presented his head to Julius Caesar. Naked, with cloak and staff. In onyx. Achila. In onice. 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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