On black ground; candelabrum surmounted by a panel with Egyptianizing scene of priest kneeling in front of a statue of Anubis; behind the statue stands a priestess in the guise of Isis.
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Title:Wall painting on black ground: Egyptianizing scene and pair of swans, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Period:Early Imperial
Date:last decade of the 1st century BCE
Culture:Roman, Pompeian
Medium:Fresco
Dimensions:Overall: 91 3/4 x 19 5/8in. (233.1 x 49.8cm)
Classification:Miscellaneous-Paintings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number:20.192.3
Della Corte, Matteo. 1922. "Pompei." Notizie Degli Scavi di Antichità, 19: pp. 459ff., fig. 9.
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Richter, Gisela M. A. and Christine Alexander. 1939. Augustan Art: An Exhibition Commemorating the Bimillennium of the Birth of Augustus. p. 27, fig. 64, New York: Marchbanks Press.
Knauer, Elfriede R. 1993. "Roman Wall Paintings from Boscotrease: Three Studies in the Relationship between Writing and Painting." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 28: pp. 13, 15, figs. 3, 5.
Merkelbach, Reinhold. 1995. Isis regina, Zeus Sarapis: die griechisch-ägyptische Religion nach den Quellen dargestellt. Abb. 78 (pg. 558), Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner.
Kunze-Götte, Erika. 1999. "Ein besonderer Flügeljunling archaiser Zeit." Antike Kunst, 42(1): p. 59 n. 42.
Milleker, Elizabeth J. 2000. The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West no. 26, pp. 44, 46, 205, New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Söldner, Magdalene. 2000. "'...fruchtbar im Sommer der Nil Strömt voll erquickender Flut...': Ägyptenrezeption im augusteischen Rom." Antike Welt, 31: pp. 383–4, fig. 2.
Yerkes, Sara R. 2005. "'Living Architecture’: Living Column and Vegetal Urn. Shared Motifs in Roman Wall Painting and ‘Neo-Attic’ Furnishings." Terra marique : studies in art history and marine archaeology in honor of Anna Marguerite McCann on the receipt of the gold medal of the Archaeological Institute of America, Prof. John Pollini, ed. p. 157, fig. 11.19, Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 399, pp. 342–43, 484, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kleiner, Fred S. 2007. A History of Roman Art. p. 76, Belmont, CA: Thomson and Wadsworth.
Galitz, Kathryn. 2016. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings. no. 32, p. 36, New York: Skira.
Campbell, Virginia L. 2017. Ancient Rome. p. 81, New York: Thames and Hudson.
Zanker, Paul, Seán Hemingway, Christopher S. Lightfoot, and Joan R. Mertens. 2019. Roman Art : A Guide through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection. no. 32, pp. 101–110, fig. 62, New York: Scala Publishers.
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