The satyr Marsyas sitting on a stone teaching the boy Olympus to play the Tibia or flute, the same subject as rendered by the famous Greek artist Polygnotus. Vignette below shows a Roman villa. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

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