Objects

In the foreground a staircase with three steps leads to a podium. On the podium, a bearded man dressed in a Greek-style robe is framed in a doorway. The laurel crown on his head and the scroll in his hand identify him as a poet. A large theatrical mask at the top the left suggests the podium may be a stage, but the oversize beardless mask here is too large for the man to wear relative to the scale of his head.

Architecture with poet

This depiction of architecture suggests an open window looking out toward another building. In the foreground is the entrance portico of a temple. On either side are two yellow caryatid columns, although the head of the one on the left has been effaced. At the corners of the roof, two winged sphinxes are seated on pedestals. Below them two griffins face each other in the architrave. A two-story colonnade is in the background at left.

Architectural landscape

This monochrome yellow-red fresco shows a landscape with architecture. To the left is an enclosed shrine on a rock, with an Ionic column supporting a vessel and a sacred tree. To the right is a staircase, flanked on both sides by balustrades, that leads to a gateway depicted in the guise of a small shrine. Inside the sanctuary is a man with a dog. Beyond the aedicula is a columnar tower with a hipped roof. In the background at center is a temple with a wooden gabled roof and decorated with a round shield on the wall.

Architectural landscape

A large colonnaded villa with porticoes is situated at the edge of a harbor. Outside the villa, along the waterfront, are people walking at leisure and an elderly man with a stick. On the villa’s pier is a fisherman, and in the water there is a boat. Mountains, trees, and a hill with buildings are in the background. The painting has a pastel color palette with pinks, greens, and oranges.

Maritime landscape

These fragments of fresco are mounted together in a single square frame. On the left, from top to bottom, are a single vase, two scrolls, and a view of five buildings with two small figures in the left foreground. On the right is a two-shelf cabinet with a green fruit and a round fruit on the top shelf, and a roundish red fruit on the bottom shelf.

Still life fragments representing vase, scrolls, landscape, and fruit

From left to right, a chair, an unrolled papyrus scroll, and a wax writing tablet are depicted against a dark background.

Still life with scribal tools and papyrus scroll

In the foreground a large goose pecks at a fruit. Above the goose is a rectangular stone shelf that holds an array of figs and pomegranates along with a small bird.

Still life with goose and fruit

Six fish, a turtle, and a clam are shown in a body of water. This fragment of a fresco has a rectangular border in red at the bottom and right.

Still life with fish

A woman in a blue robe is seated on a chair. She is Venus, goddess of love. Behind the chair a man wearing a helmet with a feather embraces her. He is Mars, her husband and the god of war. At left, seemingly unaware of the interaction between husband and wife, a servant kneels to reach into a basket or box. A young nude male figure with wings floats about the couple. He is Eros, the child of Venus and Mars. He looks at his parents while playing with a ring-and-string game.

Aphrodite and Mars

At the left a woman holds the hand of a winged child, Eros. His back is to the viewer and he appears to rub tears from his eyes with his right hand. The woman and Eros are stepping toward another woman, Eros’s mother, who is seated at right. In her lap she holds the child’s confiscated quiver and arrows—presumably as punishment for his mischief. Within a painted frame, the four figures are set in a rocky landscape with a few trees, including a large leafy tree between a cleft in the rocks. There is some pigment and imager loss along the top of the fresco and a bit of gray plaster shows in this spot.

Punished Eros

A painting on marble with three standing female figures and two who kneel on either side. The standing figures at right and center reach toward the figure at left. An inscription above the heads of the standing figures lists the names of characters from the story of Niobe, who boasted about her many children to Leto, the mother of the gods Apollo and Diana. The kneeling figures are Niobe’s children, who play knucklebones (astragali), unaware of the offense that their mother (at center) has caused Leto (at right). In the upper left-hand corner, an inscription in Greek letters.

Astragali players

A fragment from the next-to-the-last layer of plaster on a gray wall with two architectural compositions, one with a round temple framed by a pavilion and a half arch, and the other an architrave supported by columns. The overall image is gray with scratched lines.

Underpainting with grid and sketches of architecture

At the center is the stucco relief of a nude male within a colonnaded architectural frame. He supports his weight on his right leg. He bends his right arm to touch the top of his head. In his left hand he holds a long rod. There is no pigment on this work and the overall color of the image is reddish-gray.

Stucco relief of an athlete

Two rectangular pieces of bronze are joined at a right angle. A third piece is attached to the other two at the midpoint of each, creating a right-angle triangle.

Set square/Level

A cone-shaped piece of bronze with a small ball on the base and knob at the apex.

Perpendiculum – Plumb bob

This solid bowl-shaped piece of bronze has a mushroom-shaped knob on the base and a knob above a small, inverted bowl shape that forms the apex.

Perpendiculum – Plumb bob

A cone-shaped piece of bronze nob at the apex.

Perpendiculum – Plumb bob

Two flat pieces of bronze in the shape of elongated right-angle triangles are joined on the short side of each with a knob that is pierced with a thin piece of metal.

Compass

Two flat pieces of bronze in the shape of elongated right-angle triangles are joined on the short side of each with additional bronze that ends in a knob.

Compass

Two flat pieces of bronze in the long rectangles with short curved ends are joined by a flat-topped knob pierced with a thin piece of metal.

Compass

A terracotta cup with a large chunk of deep-red pigment.

Small cup with red pigments