Two figures making offerings to a column to Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri. The black fillet signifies the death of one of the deities. The cistus is depicted instead of a tabernaculum top left. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Kirk (1765-1797) from Sir William Hamilton’s Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir Hamilton, T. M’Lean, London, 1834.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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