Another bit of Gori:
and another from the same with a great mash-up of popular iconography, much rarely elsewhere combined with the wolf and twins:
Are those scorpion claws as horns for that male diety?!
Update 2/8/18:
Also see this more recent post.
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This double sided gem makes the visual claim that the two Julio-Claudian princes are the ‘new’ Romulus and Remus:
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