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Wall painting on black ground: Egyptianizing scene and pair of swans, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

last decade of the 1st century BCE
Fresco
233.1 × 49.8 cm (91.8 × 19.6 in)

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

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