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Discovery of fresco portraying Dionysian mysteries at Pompeii
AN EXTREMELY RARE “MEGALOGRAPHY” OF THE 1ST CENTURY BC, LIKE THE FAMOUS VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES Over 100 years since the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a large … keep it going
These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts … rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere. The excavations of the so-called Region IX of Pompeii – one of nine districts into which the site is sub-divided – began in February 2023, in a large area covering about 3,200 sq.m., almost an entire insula(or block) of the ancient city buried in AD 79 by the eruption of Vesuvius. Park’s Press and Communications Office (Marella Brunetto, Pina Brancati, Maria Luisa Vitale, Sophie Hay, Antonio Benforte, Giuseppe Barbella, Federica Savarese, Laura Amato)
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