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Dark Roman fresco wall with framed panels, gold linear ornament, a small yellow medallion, and a maroon lower dado with geometric designs.

Wall painting on black ground with architectural panels, Boscotrecase villa

A dark fresco wall divided into framed panels with thin gold-and-white linear ornament, a small yellow medallion above the left panel, and a maroon dado with geometric borders below. The muted composition shows architectural framing rather than the figures named in the record.

Artist
Unknown
Date
last decade of the 1st century BCE
Medium
Fresco
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
4000 × 4000 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date -1).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1920

Ancient Egyptarchitectural paintingmetropolitan museumearly imperialblack groundgold ornamentroman frescoboscotrecasewall decorationfresco fragmentancient rome

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