Greek hero Heracles taking the Delphic tripod. He holds his club above his head and wears the Nemean lionskin. From an engraved cornelian gem. Hercules Tripodem Auferens in Corneola 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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