Ceres, Roman goddess of grain and agriculture. Seated on a chair holding ears of wheat. Zerene or the Macedonian goddess Zeirene Eleusia to the Etruscans. From an engraved jasper gem. Ceres Incis. in Diaspro. 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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