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Panel with small animals and floral motives (detail)
 © Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Panel with small animals and floral motives (detail)

Fresco, middle of 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Golden Bracelet
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 87281

This panel was part of a wall fresco coming from an unidentified room in the House of the Golden Bracelet. In the panel, the branch of an oak tree with acorns winding round a cane, a little bird, a snail and a lizard can be recognized.