Small bronze figure of Venus by an Etruscan artist. A naked woman with winged mitella or diadem lying on a bed. Turan was the Etruscan goddess of love. Greek Aphrodite, Venus Murcia. Venus Etrusca ex aere in Museo Coratio. 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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