Mercury with his sacred bird, a rooster with ear of wheat. The Roman god of commerce and commyunication holds a caduceus. In cornelian. Gallo et Mercurio in corniola. 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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