Alchemical Hands in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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Sacrifice Relief: HAVE SERIA ORINTVM

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Sacrifice Relief: HAVE SERIA ORINTVM
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Relief panel depicting figures in a sacrifice scene: old man, youth, faun, and dancers. Inscription reads HAVE SERIA ORINTVM AMANTES VALE.

In the Narrative

A funerary relief in the Polyandrion depicting a ritual sacrifice, combining classical Roman sepulchral imagery with the HP narrative of love and death.

Source: LLM_ASSISTED · HIGH