Greek hero Diomedes with the Palladium statue of Athena stolen from Troy. From an engraved cornelian gem in the collection of Marcello Venuti. Diomedes in Corneola apud March Marcellum de Venutis. 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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