August represented as man holding a large dish

August represented as man holding a large dish of waters. Illustration from supplement to L'antiquite expliquee et representee en figures (vols. 1-15, Paris, 1719-1724) by Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, (1655 - 1741), a French Benedictine monk. He was an astute scholar who founded the discipline of palaeography, He is regarded as one of the founders of modern archaeology

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