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Wall painting fragment

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Plain red ground; smooth surface with no evidence of brush strokes.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Brought from Ponte di Nona. Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection Watertown MA (by 1903) gift; to Department of the Classics Harvard University transfer; to the Fogg Museum of Art 1977. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
Title: Wall painting fragment
Description:
Plain red ground; smooth surface with no evidence of brush strokes.

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