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English: Ostia Antica - House of the Painted Vaults - room 5 - central picture - south wall

Sex between a female and a male.

In Ostia Antica in the House of the Painted Vaults, a private house, there are two wall paintings of sexual scenes.[1] These wall paintings are thought to come from a mid-3rd century CE painting phase and have been painted over paintings beneath it that are from the 2nd century CE.[1]

Three photographs from November 1938 show what these paintings looked like when excavations first began in 1938.[1]

When exposed to the air and the dampness the wall paintings degraded over time.[1] In the 1950s they were removed form the wall. The paint was applied when the plaster was partailly dried and this made it fragile. When it was removed from the wall the paint degraded further.[1]

Wall painting

Date: 250 CE [1]

Excavation photo dated: 17 November 1938

Photo: Felletti Maj, Courtesy Soprintendenza alle Antichita di Ostia Antica [1]
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John R Clarke

"Looking at Lovemaking"

1998

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520229044/looking-at-lovemaking

University of California Press

ISBN=0-52020024-I
Author John R. Clarke
Camera location33° 53′ 13.67″ S, 151° 11′ 24.28″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g John R Clarke (1998) Looking at Lovemaking, University of California Press, pp. 274−275 ISBN: 9780520229044.

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Sex between a female and a male. Wall painting. House of the Painted Vaults. Ostia Antica. 250 CE

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