Date : approx. between 10 B.C. and 0
Material : Fresco
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1920)
Dynastie Julio-Claudienne
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Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Fresco (Fresque murale)
Vitrine : V09
Area related
Naples (Italy)
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This panel depicts a candelabrum, decorated with winged sirens. It comes from one of fours bedrooms excavated near the modern town of Boscotrecase between 1903 and 1905, at a site overlooking the Bay of Naples.
The villa was probably built by M. Agrippa, a close friend and son-in-law of the emperor Augustus. The frescoes date to the period immediately after Agrippa death in 12 B.C., when the villa was extensively and lavishly refurbished. The frescoes have been preserved because de villa was buried by the eruption of Mont Vesuvius I A.D.79.
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