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This 1st Century CE fresco is part of a cycle in the "House of the Physician" in Pompeii portrays pygmies living along the Nile. This scene depicts a banquet accompanied by music and sex acts. The fresco currently resides in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and has been dubbed the "Banquet of the Pygmies".
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Mentnafunangann. (2018, January 23). The "Banquet of the Pygmies". World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7966/the-banquet-of-the-pygmies/
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Mentnafunangann. "The "Banquet of the Pygmies"." World History Encyclopedia, January 23, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7966/the-banquet-of-the-pygmies/.
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