Cupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.
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