Ptolemy I Soter, Macedonian Greek general and successor to Alexander the Great, BC. Founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. Engraved gem in jacinth. Ptolomaeus Soter Incis in Hyacintho. 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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