DescriptionPompeii - Casa del Centenario - Cubiculum 2.jpg
English: Fresco from the House of the Centurion. On the Southern wall of room 43 (Cubiculum).
Sex between a female and a male.The figure on the left is wearing a strophium which is a kind of bra or bikini top.[1]
Pompeii.
Date:Around 70CE
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Roman fresco from the bedroom (Cubiculum 43) in the Casa del Centenario (IX 8,3) in Pompeii, 1. Century A. C.
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↑Michael Grant (1975) "Erotic art in Pompeii" The secret collection of the national museum of Naples", Octopus Books, p. 155 ISBN: 0-7064-0460-2.
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Sex between a female and a male. Fresco from the House of the Centurion, Pompeii. Around 70 CE
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