Praedella, by unknown artist, 45-79, 1st Century A.D., ripped fresco, 25 x 50 cm

Whole artwork view. Scene portraying probably a liturgy in honour of the god Bacchus: on a black background, four characters on a crimson line; from the left to the right, can be distinguished a woman in a profile, wearing a long tunic who holds a tyrsus, a ritual cane in her right hand and flowers in her left hand; a man sitting on a stool, with his mantle that hangs on his legs and a sceptre that addresses to the woman in front of him; a woman with her hair gathered up in a typical bend decorated with bows, with flowers in her left hand; on the right, a little pillar against which is a tyrsus with bendages; from Ercolano.