Mural of woman with a branch of lemons and a gold sceptre

Mural of woman with a branch of lemons and a gold sceptre.. Painting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749. It shows a woman with a branch of lemons and a gold sceptre. Could it be Pax, the goddess of peace, or Venus with her blue mantle, or a priestess of Bacchus with sceptrer. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own Antichita di Ercolano (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789

1749 1789 Antichità Antiquities Bacchus Ercolano Herculaneum Lemons Mantle Piroli Pompeii Priestess Removed Sceptre Tommaso Triclinium

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