Painting showing Theseus standing over the slain Minotaur in Crete. He leads the young Athenians out of the cave, while Dyctinna, the Cretan Diana, sits on a rock with her bow and quiver. Discovered in a large room in Resina in 1739. 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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