CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Double sided marble disc ornaments were suspended from the architraves of building as decoration. This one shows a dancing maenad on one side and an ithyphallic figure on the other. For an example from Pompeii with a young Herakles and a satyr see exhibition catalogue, J.B. Ward-Perkins & A.Claridge, Pompeii AD 79, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1976, p. 83, no. 82.