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by Carole Raddato
published on 12 December 2018

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Bacchus & Mount Vesuvius Fresco — Wall painting depicting Bacchus wearing a bunch of grapes with a panther at his feet and most probably Mount Vesuvius. The serpent is Agathodaemon, the "good spirit" of vineyards and grain fields. From the Lararium of the House of the Centenary, Pompeii. 55-79 CE. Naples Archaeological Museum.

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Carole Raddato

Carole maintains the popular ancient history photo-blog Following Hadrian, where she travels the world in the footsteps of emperor Hadrian.

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Uploaded by Carole Raddato, published on 12 December 2018 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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Raddato, C. (2018, December 12). Bacchus & Mount Vesuvius Fresco. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/9694/

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Raddato, Carole. "Bacchus & Mount Vesuvius Fresco." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified December 12, 2018. https://www.ancient.eu/image/9694/.

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Raddato, Carole. "Bacchus & Mount Vesuvius Fresco." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 12 Dec 2018. Web. 03 Apr 2020.

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