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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social

#MosaicMonday 🏺 Party time.... Triumphant young winged Dionysus (or Cupid?) arrives in celebratory mode w wreath of vine leaves, cup of wine, riding a lion-headed tiger.

#Roman emblema from a triclinium in House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Bordered with tragic masks and garlands. In MANN, Naples

A scene of a young winged god - probably Dionysus - on the back of a tiger with a lion's head. Gripping the harness of the beast, he wears a garland of fruit and leaves on his head and holds a large basin of wine. This central image is bounded by an elaborate series of garlands and dramatic masks, all entertwined. Outside of this is a wavy border in dark red and off-white.

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