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A scene from a comedy, with an actor dressed as a enslaved person wearing a mask of Sosius dancing to the music of a double flute (aulos or tibia) played by an unmasked woman. Pineapple indicates the show is dedicated to Bacchus. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Kirk (1765-1797) from Sir William Hamiltons Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir Hamilton, T. MLean, London, 1834.

A scene from a comedy, with an actor dressed as a enslaved person wearing a mask of Sosius dancing to the music of a double flute (aulos or tibia) played by an unmasked woman. Pineapple indicates the show is dedicated to Bacchus. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Kirk (1765-1797) from Sir William Hamiltons Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir Hamilton, T. MLean, London, 1834.
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A scene from a comedy, with an actor dressed as a enslaved person wearing a mask of Sosius dancing to the music of a double flute (aulos or tibia) played by an unmasked woman. Pineapple indicates the show is dedicated to Bacchus. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Kirk (1765-1797) from Sir William Hamiltons Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir Hamilton, T. MLean, London, 1834.
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