Egyptian chimera in black agate. A hybrid animal with bull and lion parts. The bull was the symbol of the Egyptian god Apis or Ptah, the lion Osiris. Animale egitio in agata nera. 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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