File:Wall painting - scenes from early Roman myth - Rome (columbarium on the Esquiline) - Roma MNR PMaT 1286-1289 - 05.jpg

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English: - object type: wall painting (fresco)

- description: "reading direction" of the scenes from right to left: - above: founding of a town (Lavinium?) - fight of Aeneas and the Troians against the Rululi - Nike crowning Aeneas - fight and apotheosis of Aeneas - treaty between Ascanius and Mezentius, king of Caere - foundation of a town (Alba Longa?) - scene with female figures in an interior - below: Rhea Silvia becoming a Vestalis - encounter of Mars and Rhea Silvia - (condemnation of Rhea Silvia - Rhea Silvia in prison ) - the twins being exposed in the river Tiber - the omen of the lupercal - period / date: early augustean, second style of pompeian wall painting - height of the painted frieze: 38 cm - findspot: Rome, Esquiline hill, columbarium (290 x 195 cm) of the family of T. Statilius Taurus - museum / inventory number: Roma, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289 - bibliography: Carlo Gasparri, Rita Paris, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. Le collezioni, Milano 2013, cat. 274

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