Fresco, Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Merida, Extremadura
Bacchus or Dionysus with Ampelos, a young satyr, wall painting fragment from the triclinium at Casa del Mitreo, a large Roman house built late 1st - early 2nd century AD, in Emerita Augusta, in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, or National Museum of Roman Art, designed by Rafael Moneo and built 1981-86, housing Roman collections from the colony of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus, now modern-day Merida, Extremadura, Spain. The house consists of 3 peristyles or courtyards with columns, and is decorated with mosaics and frescoes. It forms part of the Merida UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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