Caption:
One of the Bacchantes or Bacchae. The mother of Dionysus Semele and her sisters Autonoe, Agave and Ino. Or a follower of Bacchus, Roman god of wine and grapes, wearing ivy leaves in her long hair. From a carnelian gem. Baccante. Copperplate engraving by Joseph Testana 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 deLazari, Rome, 1699.