Pergamus, mythical founder of the city of Pergamum

Pergamus, son of the warrior Neoptolemus and Andromache, mythical founder of the city of Pergamum. Depicted as an adult with long beard in an oval carnelian gem. Also identified as Hyacinthus, but the hair is not in the Laconian style. Pergamo. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de'Lazari, Rome, 1699

1699 17th Century Andromache Carnelian Classical Mythology Etienne Picart Filososi Giovanni Angelo Canini Greek Myth Hyacinthus Iconografia Ignatio Delazari Mythical Neoptolemus Orator Pergamo Pergamum Poeti Ed Oratori Dell Antichita Regi Roman Myth

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