Image: Wall painting - actor and two muses - Herculaneum (insula orientalis II - palaestra - room III) - Napoli MAN 9019

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Description: - 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 - Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aime, please contact the museum and ask for permission.
Title: Wall painting - actor and two muses - Herculaneum (insula orientalis II - palaestra - room III) - Napoli MAN 9019
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