File:Wall painting - Perseus saving Andromeda - Pompeii (VII ins occ 15) - Napoli MAN 8997.jpg

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English: - object type: wall painting (fresco)

- description: 2 onlooking figures sitting on the edge of a cliff; Andromeda, freed from the rock, is led away by Perseus (who holds in his left hand the cut-off head of Medusa); compare the same scene (obviously painted after the same model) from the house of the Dioskuroi (Pompeii) - period / date: third style of pompeian wall painting - height: 103 cm - width: 97 cm - findspot: Pompeii VII insula occidentalis, 15 - museum / inventory number: Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 8997

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