White marble, early 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Gilded Cupids
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 20459

This small pillar is more elaborate than the other. The main side is decorated with mythological figures related to sea world, with Poseidon appearing at the top. On the opposite side is a long, stylized sacred tree trunk, with masks of a maenad and a satyr.