Two fauni, with tails and pointed ears, sacrificing a goat at an altar. Faunus, Roman gods of the forest, making an offering to Bacchus or Dionysus Aegobolus in Boeotia. Sacrifitio di Fauni. In cameo. 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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