Graeco-Egyptian deity Serapis in breastplate and modius headdress. Roman Emperor Julian (331-363) rejected Christianity and was depicted as the god Serapis in this engraved cornelian gem. Serapis Incis in Corneola. 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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