File:Clarke Ars Erotica 04.jpg

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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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English: Fresco from the House of the Centurion. It is on the Southern wall of room 43 (Cubiculum). From the Casa del Centenario (IX 8,3) in Pompeii.

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


Southern wall of room 43 (Cubiculum) Fresco of couple in bed.
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Source John R. Clarke: Ars Erotica. Darmstadt: Primus 2009
Author Wolfgang Rieger
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  1. ↑ 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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