Pompeii_-_Terme_Suburbane_-_Apodyterium_-_Scene_V.jpg
Summary
Description Pompeii - Terme Suburbane - Apodyterium - Scene V.jpg |
English:
Scene V of the famous mural showing variants of sexual intercourse in the Suburban Baths in Pompeii. Couple in bed. The hair of both figures indicates that this is a lesbian sex scene.
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The woman on the right wearing a
fascia pectoralis
lies back on a bed or a cline. The patches of dark green color are remains of the repainting of the wall that have been unable to be removed.
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They are dated to around 62 to 79 CE.
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Date | |
Source | John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009 |
Author | Wolfgang Rieger |
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- ↑ a b c John R. Clarke (2007) Looking at Laughter Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.- A.D. 250 , University of California Press ISBN : 9780520237339 .