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Images of 'Mercurious' found, 2

Detail of a wall painting representing a Priapus / Mercury caricature, Pompeii, c.50 - 70AD (fresco)
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A lion ('leo viridis') and a dragon ('basiliseus horribilis') salient , the left one white and the right one red, rearing up before a hermetic flask (labelled above 'matrimonium viri et mulieris', and below 'hec duo mercurious mundi') that contains golden droplets, a golden bird ('spiritus'), a white woman ('anima') and golden man ('corpus').A furnace heating a bath containing a flask, entitled 'Ignis viseralis calida sed humido operatur in frigides et siccis virtutem'); a verse in English beneath.Two distillation flasks with conjoined spouts, containing golden droplets.a tower furnace enclosing two conjoined flasks that separate 'spiritus' (above) from 'anima' and 'corpus' (below); Latin verses on either side.