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Fragments of fresco showing Maenad and Satyr

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Fragments of fresco showing Maenad and Satyr
Fragments of fresco showing Maenad and Satyr

Fragments of a fresco showing Maenad and Satyr. Object dated to the 1st century CE. Discovered in Pompeii; the artifact is in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

Maenads and Satyrs were mythological companions of the joyful procession of the god Dionysus (Bacchus).