Caption:
Representations of Apollo the ancient Greek god. 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.