Electoral inscription, Pompeii. Fragment of a Roman wall painting containing an electoral inscription from the officina of Verecundus. Depicts Mercury with caduceus and petasus emerging from a little Etruscan-Italic temple. He holds a purse of money in his right hand. Covering the wall are several inscriptions, including one which reads: "Holconium Priscum / IIvir(um) I(ure) d(icundo) d(dignum) r(ei) p(ublicae) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)" or "I ask you to elect Holconius Priscus as duovir. He is worthy of holding office." H 214 cm, W 88 cm.
An inscription found at Pompeii.
Graffito from the House of Obellius Firmus, Pompeii. Gladiator with shield and spear (photo and illustration).
Plaster body cast of victim killed by toxic fumes during eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Ranch house, Austin, Texas, 1952, plan courtesy Michael A. Whisenhunt
Atrium of the House of the Silver Wedding. Pompeii. 2nd cent BC.
Peristyle garden, House of the Vettii, Pompeii. Restored garden with water tanks, fountains, and ornamental statuary.
Peristyle. Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii. The original freestanding columns were enclosed by a wall during the final building period under the early empire.
First style wall painting. Late 2nd / early 1st c. BC, from the Samnite House, Herculaneum
Second Style Wall painting. Stage painting with Apollonian cult landscape. South wall of the "Room of the Masks" of the House of Augustus on the Palatine. 35 - 30 BC.
Second Style wall painting . General view of the Great Frieze of the Dionysiac Mysteries, Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii. Augustan period.
Second Style painting. Great Frieze of the Dionysiac Mysteries. Villa of the Mysteries (Initiation Chamber), Pompeii. Ca. 60 BC.
Roman Third Style wall painting: a Cupid stands against an architectonic background.
Third style wall painting. A tablinum from the house of Marcus Lucretius Fronto at Pompeii.
Fourth style wall painting sequence. House of the Vettii. Pompeii. Ca. 62 - 79 AD
Fourth style painting. Ixion Room, House of the Vettii, Pompeii. 1st century CE.
Fourth Style Wall painting from Pompeii. The "Sacro-Idyllic Landscape", ca. 63 - 79 AD. Now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples.
Imperial Roman Fourth Style wall painting, "Sappho" from house in Pompeii. A young woman holding a stylus and a booklet of wax tablets. A gold hair net binds her hair and she wears large, gold earrings.
Roman Fourth Style wall painting from the exedra of the House of M. Gavinus Rufus, Pompeii: Theseus stands victorious, staff in left arm, flanked by children, after having defeated the Minotaur.
Imperial Roman Fourth Style fresco from Pompeii. Detail: Still life with fish, squid, and mussel.
Roman mosaic from Pompeii: skeleton of a servant holding two pitchers.
Alexander Mosaic. The mosaic depicts the Battle at Issus. Alexander rides against Darius. Ca. 90 BC - 79 AD. Copy of the 4th century BC Greek painting by Philoxenos of Eretria From the House of the Faun, Pompeii.
Detail from the Alexander Mosaic
Sculptural relief from Pompeii, after the 2nd cent. BC: scene from a comedy, with the theatrical stage (skene) as backdrop. At left, an irate father (holding a staff) hauls off his drunken son. At right, two slaves. At center, a girl playing the tibiae.
Roman gold lamp with two nozzles from Pompeii. Lotus decoration in relief, separately cast spouts and base. The lid, now missing, would have been the most highly decorated part.
Remains of Roman tibiae from Pompeii. Naples, Archeological Museum.
Via dell'Abbondanza in Pompeii.
Reconstruction drawing of the Via dell' Abbondanza at Pompeii.
General view of Pompeiian street showing paved street with pedestrian crossing blocks [in background, Mount Vesuvius]
Pistrinum (mill) and Panificium (bakery), Pompeii. Interior view showing querns for grinding grain and hearth for baking bread.
Thermopolium, Pompeii. View of wine shop with corner bar exposed to street. Includes large earthenware containers (dolia) sunk into the counter from which wine was served.
Tavern scene. Roman wall-painting from Pompeii: a tavern scene, in which two men play a board/dice game (?) at a small table while two others look on. One of the players holds a glass.
Pompeii. Forum Baths. Interior of calidarium (hot bath) with marble labrum basin in apsidal end.
Roman bronze bathing utensils from Pompeii. Strigils and a small oil flask on wrist loop.
Pompeii. Great Theater. Interior view showing auditorium seating, orchestra, stage, orig. ca. 2nd c. BC
Pompeii. Odeon (Small Theater). Interior view showing auditorium seating, orchestra, stage, orig. ca. 75 BC.
Reconstruction of an ancient performance inside the Small Theater, Pompeii. Includes view of cavea and spectators, as well as the orchestra with dancers and musicians carrying auloi and lyres.
Pompeii. Amphitheater (arena). Exterior, view from W. showing stairways to upper level seating, original ca. 80 BC.
Imperial Roman fresco, ca. 59 - 79 AD, from House I, 3, 23 at Pompeii. Riot and brawl between Pompeians and Nucerians in and around the amphitheater.
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