Wall_painting_-_actor_and_two_muses_-_Herculaneum_(insula_orientalis_II_-_palaestra_-_room_III)_-_Napoli_MAN_9019.jpg


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English: - object type: wall painting (fresco)

- description: actor (after the show) with sceptre and sword sitting on a stool, female figure (muse?) writing something on the base of a tragic mask, in the background a second female figure (also a muse?) - period / date: third style of pompeian wall painting - height: 39 cm - width: 39 cm - findspot: Herculaneum, insula orientalis II, palaestra, room III - museum / inventory number: Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 9019 - bibliography: Giuseppina Cerulli Irelli, Masanori Aoyagi, Stefano de Caro, Umberto Pappalardo et al., La peinture de Pompéi, Paris 1993, II, cat. 443

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