Scene from a comedy by Pliny

Scene from a comedy by Pliny. A servant in comic mask makes an insulting gesture of horns (with his index and little fingers raised) to two women. Vignette of three tragic masks below. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790

Antichità Antiquities Ercolano Herculaneum Horns Index Insult Piroli Pliny Pompeii Tommaso Tragic Vignette

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