English: - object type: wall painting (fresco)
- description: actor (after the show) with sceptre and sword sitting on a stool, female figure (muse?) writing something on the base of a tragic mask, in the background a second female figure (also a muse?)
- period / date: third style of pompeian wall painting
- height: 39 cm
- width: 39 cm
- findspot: Herculaneum, insula orientalis II, palaestra, room III
- museum / inventory number: Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 9019
- bibliography: Giuseppina Cerulli Irelli, Masanori Aoyagi, Stefano de Caro, Umberto Pappalardo et al., La peinture de Pompéi, Paris 1993, II, cat. 443
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