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POM PEI AN A. 269
Page 139.
This figure is clad in a white tunic, partly covered
by an upper garment of azure, bordered with red. Her
ear-rings are pearls: her hair is bound with a red fillet,
and restrained by a yellow veil. In her right hand is a
branch, with citrons; her left holds a golden staff, or
sceptre, with an Ionic capital.
After many folio pages of learning upon these grace-
ful figures, the Academy of Naples conclude with the
reflection, that notwithstanding the many plausible con-
jectures they had thrown out, nothing certain could be
asserted respecting them; for that it is in vain to attempt
a system upon the capricci of the painter.
Page 90.
A cippus, explained page 113. It was, probably,
painted with a likeness of the person it commemorates.
Page 138.
Sec page 132 for the description of this.
Page 139.
This figure is clad in a white tunic, partly covered
by an upper garment of azure, bordered with red. Her
ear-rings are pearls: her hair is bound with a red fillet,
and restrained by a yellow veil. In her right hand is a
branch, with citrons; her left holds a golden staff, or
sceptre, with an Ionic capital.
After many folio pages of learning upon these grace-
ful figures, the Academy of Naples conclude with the
reflection, that notwithstanding the many plausible con-
jectures they had thrown out, nothing certain could be
asserted respecting them; for that it is in vain to attempt
a system upon the capricci of the painter.
Page 90.
A cippus, explained page 113. It was, probably,
painted with a likeness of the person it commemorates.
Page 138.
Sec page 132 for the description of this.