Roman priest performing a purification ritual or lustration. Naked Bellonarius with hat and cloak, washing himself in front of a column to Bellona, goddess of war. In carnelian. Lustratione. In corniola. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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