Medallion with a male portrait of a young poet awarded a garland for taking part in a literary contest depicted in the Roman fresco from the House of the Cenaculum (Casa del Cenacolo) in Pompeii (1-79 AD), now on display in the National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) in Naples, Campania, Italy. He may have been given a prize in a contest of epic poetry since the Homer can be read on the name tag hanging from the roll.

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