Standing Deity Holding Horn and Bucket, 1st century, 33 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. ( x cm), Fresco, Italy, 1st century, This panel comes from Pompeii, a prosperous city in southern Italy destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 and only rediscovered in 1748. It is a fragment of a larger wall painting removed during a 19th-century excavation. The figure probably represents a Lar, a Roman ancestral god honored as a guardian of the family’s welfare, and worshiped in a household shrine called a lararium. The god carries a drinking horn and a wine bucket, and wears a short

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