Bronze figure of a goddess in diadem and robe, found in the villa of Tadeus Orselli of Cortona. Possibly Roman Juno, in Etruscan religion Uni or Eris, goddess of marriage, fertility, family. Phoenician Astarte, Greek Hera. Iunonis Icuncula ex aere in Museo Coratio. 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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