with the exception of the central picture and the two side figures. The
middle picture represents Venus (Aphroditê), Euploia, borne on the back
of a Triton, playing a lyre. She is attended by the Cupids Pothos,
Himeros, and Eros. A female figure behind carries a jar, and the heads
of Boreas and Zephyros blowing are visible through the dark blue sky.
This picture is taken from the house with the coloured capitals. It has
been carefully engraved in the Museo Borbonico, vol. xii., tav. 32. See
also Panofka Autikenschau, Berlin, 1850.
The floating female to the left of central picture holds the _tympanum_
or drum in the right and _thyrsus_ in the left; her dress is pale purple
with white drapery floating behind. This shows well on the yellow panel.
Her left breast is covered with a nebris or fawn-skin. The female to the
right holds a ewer in her right hand and a patera in her left. A thin
gauze drapery is next her skin, having a crimson drapery lined with blue
over it. Both these Bacchantes have bracelets and anklets. The four
floating Bacchantes of tablinum have been taken from the House with the
Coloured Capitals.