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Saturday ReviewJudi Dench in Peter and Alice and Danny Boyle's film TranceLife and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum

At the British Museum, 28 March – 29 September 2013.

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Satyr and maenads, marble wall panel, From the House of the Dionysiac Reliefs, Herculaneum, 1st century AD

© Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei / the British Museum

  • Herculaneum, Bay of Naples, Italy, 2012
  • Relief with Bacchus and followers, marble wall panel, From the House of the Dionysiac Reliefs, Herculaneum, 1st century AD
  • Casts of a group pf a victim, two adultes and two children, very probably a family; House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii
  • Bronze statue of a woman fastening her dress. From the Villa of the Papyrii, Herculaneum, 1st century BC to 1st century AD.
  • Mosaic of a guard dog. From the House of Orpheus, Pompeii, 1st century AD.
  • Pompeii, Bay of Naples, Italy, 2012.
  • Plaster cast of the body of a man, the so-called 'muleteer'; large Palaestra, Pompeii
  • Satyr and maenads, marble wall panel, From the House of the Dionysiac Reliefs, Herculaneum, 1st century AD
  • Gold bracelet in the form of a coiled snake, 1st Century AD, Roman, Pompeii.
  • Carbonised wooden cradle. From the House of M.P.P.Granianus, Herculaneum, 1st century AD
  • Plaster cast of a dog. From the House of Orpheus, Pompeii, AD 79
  • Fragment of a wall painting showing a man reclining to drink. From Pompeii, 1st century AD.

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