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Wall painting on white ground: fragment with candelabrum, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

last decade of the 1st century BCE
Fresco
127 × 38.1 cm (50 × 15 in)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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