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Calvarium
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ CALVARIUM  id+ | DOME of the CRANIUM |
             biol> med> VAULT OF THE SKULL or
  SKULL WITHOUT THE LOWER JAW
  lat CALVA      SCALP WITHOUT HAIR
      CALVARIA   SKULL
  sp  CALVO      BALD or ALOPECIA as if to stress
                 EXPOSED CALVARIUM DUE TO A HAIRLESS SCALP
      CALVA      A CLEARING
      CALATO     NAKED  NUDE  EXPOSED
      CALVICIE   BALD   BARE
    ENCALVECER   BECOME BALD
      CALAVERA   WILD FELLOW  DEBAUCHER  RAKE
      CALVAR     TO CHEAT as if to  "CLEAN UP" somebody
  hx> CALVARY WAS A HILL NEAR JERUSALEM IN THE SHAPE OF
      A VAULT AND THE SITE WHERE JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED
  see> CRANIUM  CREATE  TEST
  
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