Vignettes from walls in rooms in Pompeii

Vignettes from walls in rooms in Pompeii.. Two vignettes at top showing trees surmounted by gold shields with the head of the Medusa. At the foot of one tree is a Dryad with a hatchet, the attribute of the guardian nymph of the forest. The two landscapes below show Nile scenes in Egypt with Anubis statues, a donkey, a crocodile, etc. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own Antichita di Ercolano (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789

1789 Antichità Antiquities Anubis Attribute Crocodile Dryad Ercolano Guardian Hatchet Herculaneum Medusa Nymph Piroli Pompeii Shields Surmounted Tommaso Vignettes

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