Wall fragment with a woman and a leopard

Roman, 50-75 A.D.

 

Plaster and pigment

 

Fresco

 

A reclining woman leans forward to offer a peopard a drink from a liver kantharos (ritual cup). both leopards and kantharoi were assoicated wtih Baccus, thus the woman is probably a maenad, one of his female followers. The artist skillfully rendered spatial depth through the play of light and shadows.

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