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which reaches from the neck to the ankle. The pipes on which he is 

 playing are dark brown in color. The musician's rather long head is 

 covered with scanty brown hair, about which there are traces of a wide 

 green wreath. He has a slanting forehead, thick lips and a retreating 

 chin. Eye, nose and mouth are preserved. 



The lower part of the piece contains only a large crested serpent 

 represented as moving to right. His back, which has a scalloped out- 

 line, is brownish red. The under side is yellow with dark brown stripes 

 as far as the neck, which with the greater part of the head is brownish 

 red. The crest is, with the exception of two large white spots, of a bright 

 red color. From the mouth which is slightly open, the bright red tongue 

 darts obliquely downward. Above and below the serpent there are 

 in each scallop traces of a large green plant, in shape somewhat like a 

 fleur-de-lis. 



A similar, but apparently less complete representation of the same 

 subject was found in another villa near Boscoreale. 1 In a picture in the 

 House of the Vettii at Pompeii the Genius, holding a patera and the 

 incense-box, stands in the center with a Lar at either side. The altar 

 and the serpent are in the zone beneath. 2 Compare also the shrines 

 in the Pompeian houses, Regio V, Insula iv, No. 3, in which the sacri- 

 ficing figures, corresponding to the usual Iuno and Genius, have the 

 form of Minerva and Hercules, 3 and Regio VI, Ins. xv, in which the 

 Genius, who holds a golden cornucopia in his left hand, and with the 

 other pours on an altar from a golden patera, has the features of Nero. 4 

 With the camilli cf. the youth with pitcher and metal basin on the Ara 

 Pads. 5 



Height, m. 0.65 (=2 ft. 1.59 in.). Width, m. 1.118 (=3 ft. 8.01 in.). 



Restoration of plaster in corners and on right side, especially between main 

 scene and serpent. There are cracks in every part, particularly around the edges. 

 The background is now mostly of a whitish color, streaked and blotched in many 

 places, especially in the upper part, to yellow and brown. The garments are of 

 substantially the same color as the background, but are distinguished from it by 

 their outlines. Nearly all the lower part and most of the right end after the camillus 

 form a large corner of somewhat darker color (except where restored), as though 

 smoked. 



1 Villa in the locality "Giuliana." Notiz. degli Scavi. 189s. pp- 214-15. "nicchietta dei Penati con 

 la relativa rappresentanza lararia. in cui son dipinte le immagini dei Lari, del Genius Familiaris sacri- 

 ficante sull'ara, e del tibicen, tutti nel noto costume e atteggiamento " (Sogliano). 



1 Mau, Roem. Milteil. XI (1896), p. 29. 



1 Notiz. degli Scavi, 1899, p. 340 (Sogliano). 



« Mau. Roem. Mitteil. XIII (1898). p. S3- 



5 Petersen, Ara Pads Auguslae, plate III. viii. «= Strong. Roman Sculpture, plate IX, 2. 



