Two vignettes of Cupids or genii playing ancient games. Above, three cupids play on a two-wheeled chariot or Birotum as if rehearsing for the Circus. Below, three genii play a game of hide and seek. 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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