Vignettes of cupids or genii. Above, a painting found in Resina in 1748 depicting the Genii of Apollo, one with a lyre in a chariot drawn by griffins led by another with a plate. Below, found in Resina in 1749, this painting shows a boy leaving offerings for a snake on a rustic altar inscribed GENIUS LOCI HUJUS MONTIS or the "genius of this mountain." 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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