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by Jan van der Crabben
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Wall Painting of a Reclining Naiad

by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 18 November 2018

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This wall-painting depicts a reclining Naiad (water-nymph), drinking from a horn. This panel adorned the "Red Room" behind the triclinium (dining room) of the villa. A companion panel from the same room is in the Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples. From a Roman villa at Campo Varano, Stabiae, in modern-day Italy. Roman period, 30-50 BCE. Blacas Collection (Painting 31). (The British Museum, London).

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