A naked Bacchante uses a thyrsus to fend off a violent assault by a youth. In the vignette, a naked Citaristia in wreath of ivy plays a harp. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.

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