Etruscan bronze figure of a gryphon, a mythical beast. In the Museum of the Knights of the Order of Saint Stephen, Cortona. Gryphus ex aere in Museo Equit. Corazii. 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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