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| Description | The scene formed part of the internal decoration of a podium that surrounded the garden of the Casa del Medico (VIII, 5, 24) in Pompeii, noted for the presence of a third scene with the so-called “Judgement of Solomon”, which is also kept in the Archaeological Museum of Naples (inv. 113197). The whole cycle depicts pygmies fighting crocodiles and hippopotamuses, a theme frequently used in depictions of this type, of which there are examples in mosaics and pottery. Pygmies were depicted from Archaic times in scenes of combat with cranes and, in Hellenistic times, represented the symbol of a remote exotic world, portrayed in its most grotesque and comic guises. The scene is set on the banks of a river, in which there is a boat with a prow in the form of a donkey’s head, steered by two pygmies fully armed with helmets, spears and shields who are transporting amphoras. There is also a hippopotamus in the river devouring a pygmy while a second pygmy, on the back of the animal, tries to free his companion from its jaws by hitting it with a jug. A banquet is taking place on the river bank: beneath an awning stretched between two trees there is a triclinium on which lie five pygmies, and a round table with a container on it, next to which two pygmies are coupling, while a third pygmy plays the double flute. To the right of the scene is a dancing procession, represented by a pygmy, an ibis and two pygmies waving sticks, while on the edge of the picture two pygmies are depicted having a conversation. The women are distinguished by the length of their tunics. The scene takes place within a fenced-off area with entrances, beside which is a building. In Roman times, this was one of the favourite scenes for the decoration of tricliniums, which were intended for rest but also for the pleasure of the master of the house and usually positioned in open spaces. The erotic scene accompanied by music beneath the awning is also found in Pompeii in a fresco still in situ on the front of the right panel of the summer triclinium (p) positioned under a pergola in the Casa dell'Efebo (I, 7, 11). |
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| Source | Detail of a fresco depicting Nilotic landscape with pygmies, Naples National Archaeological Museum |
| Author | Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany |
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