Fresco from the House of Julia Felix | Dickinson College Commentaries

Fresco in two registers, depicting two shelves. On the top shelf a bag, probably containing coins, sits in the center flanked on one side by a pile of silver coins and on the other gold. On the lower shelf, an inkwell sits far left with a stylus balanced across the left. next to lays a scroll. To the right of the scroll is an open set of wax tablets with a second stylus. Far right, a closed set of wax tablets.

Annotations

Wax tablets in a business setting (1st century AD). Fresco from the House of Julia Felix, Pompeii.

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Photo: Wolfgang Rieger

Associated Passages

Ovid, Amores 1.12