Small pillar with relief slab
White marble, early 1st cent. A.D. Pompeii, House of the Gilded Cupids Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 20458
The high relief carving is richly decorated with fruit and foliage; the bas-relief on the opposite side portrays a flowering branch. Scenes with theatrical masks are represented on both sides of the carved stone, which rests on a stylized Corinthian capital.
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