Bacchic rite. Girl with tibiae, woman with guttum vase, man with ark containing statuette of Bacchus, naked director of the rite, and woman (Ceres?). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.

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