ANTIQUE ROMAN FRESCO,SATYR MASK,GARLAND,FRUITS TILE

Boscoreale: Frescoes from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor.Digital elaboratopn by Bulgan Lumini.Decoration in the first century A.D. There follows a course of alternating green and golden blocks that bears an elaborate entablature consisting of a white architrave, a purple frieze decorated with brackets in the form of bearded horned snakes with interlacing tails, and a white cornice. Hanging from a red cord tied in the bull's mouth is a wicker basket, the cista mystica, its lid removed to reveal a snake uncoiling from a bed of ivy. Suspended from the garland also in red cords are a cymbal and a satyr mask.