This panel, once identified as a music lesson, probably depicts a scene of love, set inside a house. A woman playing a kithara (a type of lyre) sits with her lover who gazes adoringly at her. From Pompeii, in modern-day Italy. Roman period, 50-79 CE. (The British Museum, London).
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Amin, O. S. M. (2018, November 12). Pompeii Fresco of a Woman Playing a Lyre. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9431/pompeii-fresco-of-a-woman-playing-a-lyre/
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