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Comedy scene: the consultation of the sorceress (signed by Dioskourides of Samos) in Villa of Cicero, Pompeii
The scene portrayed is either from Aristophanes's comedy Synaristoi or from a play of the New Comedy. Three women carrying masks are seated round a circular table, two of them youthful and the other an old hag. The presence of vases on the table suggests that the sorceress might be preparing love potions, assisted by a serving girl seen on the right.
Now it is in the Naples National Archaeological Museum
Now it is in the Naples National Archaeological Museum