Cupid with mask
White marble, first half of 1st cent. A.D. Pompeii, House of D. Octavius Quartio Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 20513
The left arm holds a comic mask, from the mouth of which gushed water. The sculpture stood at the top of a cascade, from which water flowed beside the longitudinal euripus, in the nymphaeum below the small temple of Diana.
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