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end above the top of the vase. The right handle is white and slightly 

 lower. The vase is drawn only in outline, chiefly white but with some 

 brown lines, especially on the left side, for shading. About the center 

 there is, as in the others, a double white line. Against the front of the 

 vase a palm-branch leans, the leafy part downwards. There seems to 

 have been a festoon about the stem. 



Between the second and third vases there is a poorly preserved 

 four sided white object, which does not reach to the basis, and is proba- 

 bly to be regarded as a mat lying farther back in the room (or whatever 

 the space assumed may be) . On this mat stands the outline of a table 1 

 with three straight legs drawn in white with brown shading. Above 

 the table there is a white ring with triangular tail-piece, on which there 

 is brown shading. The object is probably a wreath conceived as 

 hanging on a wall. 



At the right end, in the rear of the third vase, there are traces which 

 probably belong to a second table with oblong top. It probably had two 

 legs at each end, but of them only slight vestiges remain. On the 

 extreme right end of the table an object resembling a cup with handle 

 is sketched. In the foreground, at the extreme right, there are lines 

 in brown and white, perhaps intended to suggest a wine-skin. 



The palm branches are perhaps for lustration. 2 An unsupported 

 rectangular slab is used as basis in a central panel from the House of 

 Argus and Io in Herculaneum. 3 A possible place for the compartment 

 is suggested by the employment of similarly framed pieces in the 

 middle of the right and left edges of the side panels of a wall in the Casa 

 della Seconda Fontana di Musaico, 4 Pompeii (Fourth Style). 



Height, m. 0.215 ( = 8.46 in.). Width, m. 0.43 ( = 1 ft. 4.92 in.). 



The fresco is in fairly good condition, though it is worn in places and there are 

 numerous small abrasions, particularly in the red paint. 



After the yellow, the red was applied, then the brownish black of the vases. The 

 palms were painted after the vases. 



FRESCO. 24654. [Plate CXXVI.] 



Small decorative compartment containing an interior with a window. 



The border, which enclosed the compartment on all sides, is partly 

 hidden by the wooden frame in which the piece is at present preserved. 

 The dark brownish red inner edge may, however, be seen all the way 



1 Similar table, but with brace between the legs, on greave from Pompeii, Nicolini, Casa dei Gladi- 

 atori. plate v, No. 8. 



1 Cf. Zahn, Die schoensten Ornamente, etc. Vol. i, plate 89 (Pompeii). Fourth Style house with rec- 

 tangular panels in right and left corners of the dado, where a branch represented with one of the vases 

 seems to serve such a purpose. 



1 Zahn, op. cit. Vol. ii, plate 66. 



• Zahn, op. cit. Vol. ii, plate 95. 



