Bacchante or acolyte of Bacchus, Roman god of wine. (Fufluns Pacha in Etruscan religion.) In hat, wearing a soft purple silk tunic and skirt. From an engraved agate gem. Baccha Incis in Achate. 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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