DescriptionWall painting - birth of Venus from a shell - Pompeii (VII 6 7) - Napoli MAN.jpg
English: - object type: wall painting (fresco)
- description: birth of Aphrodite / Venus („anadyomene“) from the shell, held by Eros; very similar to the famous painting in the casa della Venere in conchiglia, Pompeii II, 3, 3; probably both depending from a hellenistic original
- period / date: fourth style of pompeian wall painting, 50-79 AD
- findspot: Pompeii VII, 6, 7
- museum / inventory number: Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
- There is some discussion about the identification of this piece: The information in the Museum says: from Pompei(?) without inventory number; the catalogue gives the (wrong?) inventory number 27704 and the exact findspot Pompeii VII, 6, 7 ...
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