A nurse holding the Roman god of wine Bacchus. According to legend, he was raised by Muses or Nymphs in Nysa, India. In the Etruscan religion, Fufluns Pacha or Puphluns, god of wine, plant life, happiness and health. From a variegated agate gem. Bacchus a Nutriciulnis Elatus in Achate Variegata Ibid. 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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