Bacchante or acolyte of Bacchus, Roman god of wine. (Fufluns Pacha in Etruscan religion.) Her hair tied with a cord, wearing a soft purple silk tunic. From an engraved agate gem. Baccha Incis in Achate. 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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