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Fresco showing Chiron and pupil

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2 October 2018
Fresco showing Chiron and the pupil
Fresco showing Chiron and pupil

Roman fresco of the centaur Chiron instructing the young Achilles in the playing of the lyre. Object found in Herculaneum. Dated back to I century CE; located in Naples Archeological Museum.

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