Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta : quibus vrbis Romae, aliarumque gentium primordia, mores, & res gestae indicantur
A 1637 Frankfurt printing by Curzio Inghirami, a scholarly antiquarian work on Etruscan remains and early Roman origins, aimed at learned readers of antiquities. Its pictures are crude black-and-white woodcut-style emblems: a T-shaped tau-like sign over chevrons, a shield-shaped panel with an eye, hand, star and bird, a curled scroll form, and a bold tau with two crossed strokes, suggesting bold graphic signs and symbols a designer could adapt for ancient, mystical or heraldic motifs.
