Byzas, legendary founder of Byzantium or Byzantion, the city later known as Constantinople and then Istanbul. From a coin with a head of a bearded man in a crested hermet. Biza. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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