Etruscan haruspex holding a bird in his right hand. In Etruscan religion, the haruspex found omens or augurs in the entrails of sacrificed animals. From an engraved cornelian gem. Haruspex Etruscus. 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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