Etruscan warrior (archer) in helmet, breastplate with skirt, ocreae or greaves to cover the shins. Perhaps Halaesus, the greatest Etruscan hero. Bronze figure found near Ravenna, now in the Museum of the Knights of the Order of Saint Stephen, Cortona. Miles Etruscus Ex Aere Apud Equit Coratium. 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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