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Mask of a woman
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Mask of a woman

White marble, 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Gilded Cupids
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 2954

The subject of the mask, which was hung between the columns in the spectacular peristyle of the house, specifically evokes the world of the theatre.