Hermaphrodite in cape with waterlily leaf (the nymph Salmacis described by Ovid), and naked young man with discus and olive branch (Pelops, founder of the Olympic Games). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.

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