One of the Cabiri, son of Vulcan and the nymph Cabira, with shield (scudo) and spear (hasta). The woman may be a Cabiridae, or Cybele or Hecate, but not a Bacchante. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.

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