English: Drawing of a Pompeii fresco depicting a young hunter and Egyptian deities by Adolphe Bouchet. Translated full plate description: "Plate 137: A naked young man, armed with a spear or a spear, rests on a rock bench, in the shade of a shrub and near a pedestal or an altar which supports a vase reddish in color. Perhaps the parts of this painting that are destroyed contained props with the help of which the subject could have been determined. In the state where the fragment is, we cannot decide if this young hunter is Endymion, Adonis, or Cephalus (1).

"The two fragments of the vignette represent, on a black background, Isis and Osiris. In the first Osiris, having the head of a hawk (2), which represents the Sun, and crowned with a lotus (3), holds in his hand a stick or rather a stem of reed. This plant, which can still be seen in the hands of the two figures in the other fragment, and which grows in Egypt to a great height (4), was the ordinary attribute of Bacchus-Osiris and of all the gods. which the Egyptians considered beneficial (5).

"This is how the Romans placed a stick or a whip in the hand of the Averrunci gods, who averted evils and troubles: consoling images, which are often found in the oldest myths! Isis, also crowned with a lotus, holds a serpent in her hand, emblem of her mysteries and her influence on human health. Perhaps, according to this, this little fresco is only an ex-voto. Isis, the deity myrio nyme (who has ten thousand names), is represented here with a bearded face like the god Lunus (1), and like the Venus barbata, who was worshiped in the island of Cypress (2). The two deities have a kind of turned-down collar on their shoulders, and Isis wears the Egyptian hairstyle. Between them is a small altar or a kind of candelabra supporting a vase.

"In the second fragment, Isis is a woman, and Osiris has the head of a bearded old man: he is crowned with ivy, a plant which is consecrated to him and to Bacchus (3). Both carry, in addition to the reed, an object that is difficult to distinguish: perhaps it is the Isiac tau, the cross with a handle (crux ansata) (4). The two deities are dressed much as in the other fragment: but Isis has, in addition, this sort of trellis dress which, it is claimed, was the emblem of the connection and chaining of all beings. (1). Between them is a table which appears to be of silver, supporting a kind of perch on which a dove poses, with outstretched wings: the dove and the swallow were consecrated to Isis." - Louis Barré, 1870