DescriptionWall painting - Admetos and Alkestis receiving the oracle - Herculaneum - Napoli MAN 9026 - 01.jpg
English: - object type: wall painting (fresco)
- description: Admetos and his wife Alkestis receive the oracle saying that one of them will die unless a relative offers himself to go to Hades instead; Admetos´ parents listen;
compare the painting: same subject, different composition: Pompeii, VI, 8, 3, house of the tragic poet, tablinum (8), Napoli MAN 9027
- period / date: fourth style of pompeian wall painting
- height: 106 cm
- width: 86,5 cm
- findspot: Herculaneum
- museum / inventory number: Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 9026
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