Caption:
Aspasia, born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and had a relationship with the statesman Pericles, 5th century BC. Wearing a helmet with a griffin supporting a crest. With Greek letters indicating a gift from Apollo from a precious stone. Aspasia con Griso sopra l'Elmo. 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.