Summamus, Etruscan god of nocturnal thunder, twin or opposite of Jupiter/Zeus. Naked man holding a thunderbolt. The oldest bronze figure of Jupiter Summamus, Iovem Summanum. Jupiter ex Aere in Academia Etrusca. 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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