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Title:Wall painting: Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Period:Early Imperial, Augustan
Date:last decade of the 1st century BCE
Culture:Roman
Medium:Fresco
Dimensions:H. 73 3/4 in. (187.33 cm.) width 47 in. (119.38 cm.)
Classification:Miscellaneous-Paintings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number:20.192.17
From an imperial villa in Boscotrecase, near Pompeii (Santini 1905; Alexander 1929).
1903-4, excavated by Ernesto Santini from an imperial villa on his property at Boscotrecase; from 1904, collection of E. Santini; acquired February 3, 1921, purchased from the estate of E. Santini.
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