Standing Deity Holding Horn and Bucket, 1st C CE

'Standing Deity Holding Horn and Bucket' fresco, 1st C CE, now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. *'This panel comes from Pompeii, a prosperous city in southern Italy destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and only rediscovered in 1748. It is a fragment of a larger wall painting removed during a 19th-century excavation. The figure probably represents a Lar, a Roman ancestral god honored as a guardian of the family’s welfare, and worshiped in a household shrine called a lararium. The god carries a drinking horn and a wine bucket, and wears a short, swirling cloak, all traditional attributes of a Lar. His pose indicates that he appeared as one of several figures in a horizontal mural within a lararium. *'The composition was drawn directly into a layer of damp lime plaster...The colors became bound to the plaster as it dried, and the work remained an integral part of the wall surface.' More info about the fresco [here](https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2613)