Woman, half naked, holding a disc in her left hand and long cloak in her right. Probably a Cernoforno, a dancer who practised holding plates, vases, baskets, etc. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.

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