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Glabella
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

~ GLABELLA  id+ | BALD  or HUMAN FOREHEAD |
            almost the same as 
  see> METOPIC AREA 
  lat  GLABELLUS = BALD     see> ALOPECIA
  more precisely 
  lit+ med> SPACE BETWEEN AND ABOVE THE 
            EYEBROWS AND GENERALLY LACKING 
  SCALP OR EYEBROWS HAIR but occasionally 
  there is SYNOPHRIS or CONFLUENCE OF EYEBROWS 
  biol> sc> PARANTHROPUS SKULLS ARE THOSE
            WITH DEPRESSED GLABELLAE
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