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Mask of Paniscus
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Mask of Paniscus

White marble, 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Gilded Cupids
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 55279

This oscillum portrays a Paniscus, a little forest sprite, wild and smiling.