Figure of Bonus Eventus, rustic Roman god of agriculture. Naked with cloak, holding a bowl and ears of wheat in front of an altar. From an engraved green jasper gem. Bonus Eventus In Iaspid virid itid. 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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