Dido abandoned by Aeneas
![Queen Dido of Carthage sits enthroned at center while a small ship sails off in the distant background in the top left. A dark-skinned woman at left holds an ivory drinking vessel shaped like a tusk, and the light-skinned female figure at right wears an elephant headdress. A woman behind the throne holds a small parasol over the queen’s head.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/pompeii-in-color/objects/dido-abandoned/@@images/5846efb3-6eca-48ca-b915-0f66efd17407.png)
Dido abandoned by Aeneas
- Medium:
- Fresco
- Dimensions:
- 135.9 cm wide, 115.9 cm high
- Context:
- House of Meleager, atrium 2, north wall, central section, Pompeii
- Date:
- 1st century CE
- Inventory Number:
- MANN 8898
- Lender:
- National Archaeological Museum of Naples
- Credit:
- Image © Photographic Archive, National Archaeological Museum of Naples