Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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A scroll through a fresco from a single room in the House of Mysteries, assumed to depict the rite of initiation for a young girl into the Dionysian Mysteries, a mystery cult. The house, located in a suburb of Pompeii, was destroyed in the volcanic explosion of 79 AD and excavated beginning in 1909.


This is the type of painting that inspired the Neoclassical painters like Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
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