Winged figure of Victoria, Roman deity of victory. Wearing a gold cingulum girdle and holding a laurel crown. From an engraved agate gem. Victoria 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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