Florentine Wolf and Twin Gems

Another bit of Gori:

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and another from the same with a great mash-up of popular iconography, much rarely elsewhere combined with the wolf and twins:

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Are those scorpion claws as horns for that male diety?!

Update 2/8/18:

Also see this more recent post.

This double sided gem makes the visual claim that the two Julio-Claudian princes are the ‘new’ Romulus and Remus:

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