DescriptionHeadstone of Robert Shirley and Teresa Sampsonia in S. Maria della Scala, Rome.png
English: The funerary slab for Robert Shirley and Teresa Sampsonia in S. Maria della Scala, Rome. The inscription reads:
To God, the Best and Greatest. For Robert Sherley, most noble Englishman, Count Palatine, Knight of the Golden Spur, Emperor Rudolph II's envoy to Shah Abbas, the King of Persia, (and) the representative of the same King to the Popes of Rome, to Emperors, to the Kings of Spain, England, Poland, Muscovy, and the Mogul Empire, distinguished ambassador to other European princes. Theresia Sampsonia, native of the land of the Amazons, daughter of Samphuffus, Prince of Circassia, set up [this monument] for her most beloved husband and for herself, as a resting place for his bones—brought to Rome from Persia for dutiful devotion’s sake—and for her own, aged seventy-nine. 1668.
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