title: Sappho fresco (from Pompeii)

artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown</div>

date: between 55 and 79

source: Yorck

description: Tondo of <i><b><u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u> with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho")</b></i>, National Archaeological Museum of Naples (inventory no. 9084). Roman <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">fresco</u> of about 50, from <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">pompeii</u> (VI, Insula Occidentalis) - Discovered in 1760, is one of the most famous and beloved paintings, commonly called Sappho. Actually portrays a high-society Pompeian <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u>, richly dressed with gold-threaded hair and large gold earrings, bringing the stylus to the mouth and holding the wax tablets, notoriously accounting documents which therefore have nothing to do with poetry and even less with the famous Greek writer.

title: Sappho fresco (from Pompeii)

artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown</div>

date: between 55 and 79

source: Marisa Ranieri Panetta (ed.): Pompeji. Geschichte, Kunst und Leben in der versunkenen Stadt. Belser, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN|3-7630-2266-X , p. 181

description: Tondo of <i><b><u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u> with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho")</b></i>, National Archaeological Museum of Naples (inventory no. 9084). Roman <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">fresco</u> of about 50, from <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">pompeii</u> (VI, Insula Occidentalis) - Discovered in 1760, is one of the most famous and beloved paintings, commonly called Sappho. Actually portrays a high-society Pompeian <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u>, richly dressed with gold-threaded hair and large gold earrings, bringing the stylus to the mouth and holding the wax tablets, notoriously accounting documents which therefore have nothing to do with poetry and even less with the famous Greek writer.

title: Sappho fresco (from Pompeii)

artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown</div>

date: between 55 and 79

source: http://voxlatina.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/21.jpg

description: Tondo of <i><b><u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u> with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho")</b></i>, National Archaeological Museum of Naples (inventory no. 9084). Roman <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">fresco</u> of about 50, from <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">pompeii</u> (VI, Insula Occidentalis) - Discovered in 1760, is one of the most famous and beloved paintings, commonly called Sappho. Actually portrays a high-society Pompeian <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u>, richly dressed with gold-threaded hair and large gold earrings, bringing the stylus to the mouth and holding the wax tablets, notoriously accounting documents which therefore have nothing to do with poetry and even less with the famous Greek writer.

title: Sappho fresco (from Pompeii)

artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown</div>

date: between 55 and 79

source: sf

description: Tondo of <i><b><u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u> with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho")</b></i>, National Archaeological Museum of Naples (inventory no. 9084). Roman <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">fresco</u> of about 50, from <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">pompeii</u> (VI, Insula Occidentalis) - Discovered in 1760, is one of the most famous and beloved paintings, commonly called Sappho. Actually portrays a high-society Pompeian <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u>, richly dressed with gold-threaded hair and large gold earrings, bringing the stylus to the mouth and holding the wax tablets, notoriously accounting documents which therefore have nothing to do with poetry and even less with the famous Greek writer.

title: Fresque des mytères, Pompéi

artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown author</div>

date: ca. 50 BCE

source: from ''Le Musée absolu'', Phaidon, 10-2012

credit: from <i>Le Musée absolu</i>, Phaidon, 10-2012

description: Silenus holding a lyre (left); demi-god Pan and a nymph sitting on a rock, nursing a goat (centre); <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u> with coat (right). <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">fresco</u> of the mystery ritual, right, Villa of the Mysteries, <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">pompeii</u>, Italy.

title: <div class="fn"> A naked man and woman in sexual congress on a bed. Coloured</div>

artist: unknown

source: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/de/b1/1eb1fbc6203a51e136364fdbad7b.jpg * Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0038951.html * Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-22): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/satqty3a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY-4.0]

credit: <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/de/b1/1eb1fbc6203a51e136364fdbad7b.jpg">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/de/b1/1eb1fbc6203a51e136364fdbad7b.jpg</a> </p> <ul> <li>Gallery: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0038951.html">https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0038951.html</a> </li> <li>Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-22): <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/satqty3a">https://wellcomecollection.org/works/satqty3a</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY-4.0</a> </li> </ul>

description: <div class="description"> <p>A naked man and <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u> in sexual congress on a bed. Coloured process print. </p> <p>Iconographic Collections - Erotic <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">fresco</u> in the Lupanar of <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">pompeii</u>.</p> </div>

title: Sappho fresco (from Pompeii)

artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown</div>

date: between 55 and 79

source: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/14842101892/ Flickr]

description: Tondo of <i><b><u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u> with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho")</b></i>, National Archaeological Museum of Naples (inventory no. 9084). Roman <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">fresco</u> of about 50, from <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">pompeii</u> (VI, Insula Occidentalis) - Discovered in 1760, is one of the most famous and beloved paintings, commonly called Sappho. Actually portrays a high-society Pompeian <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u>, richly dressed with gold-threaded hair and large gold earrings, bringing the stylus to the mouth and holding the wax tablets, notoriously accounting documents which therefore have nothing to do with poetry and even less with the famous Greek writer.

title: Sappho fresco (from Pompeii)

artist: <div class="fn value"> Unknown</div>

date: between 55 and 79

source: retouched||orig=Fresco showing a woman so-called Sappho holding writing implements, from Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum (14842101892).jpg|editor=Martellkarl ger

description: Tondo of <i><b><u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u> with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho")</b></i>, National Archaeological Museum of Naples (inventory no. 9084). Roman <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">fresco</u> of about 50, from <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">pompeii</u> (VI, Insula Occidentalis) - Discovered in 1760, is one of the most famous and beloved paintings, commonly called Sappho. Actually portrays a high-society Pompeian <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">woman</u>, richly dressed with gold-threaded hair and large gold earrings, bringing the stylus to the mouth and holding the wax tablets, notoriously accounting documents which therefore have nothing to do with poetry and even less with the famous Greek writer.