Emperor Antoninus Pius, 86-161, and his wife, Faustina the Elder, From an engraved nicolo gem. Antoninus et Faustina in Gem Vulgo Nicolo. 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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