Painting of a meal in honour of the dead

Excavated in 1865 in the Porta Laurentina necropolis. From the same tomb as the painting of Mercurius and the ship Isis Giminiana.
Date: first half of the third century AD. W. 0.74, h. 0.32.

The tomb in which this painting was found has not been identified. Five men are participating in a meal in honour of the dead (refrigerium). Their names are painted above them: [---]mus, Felix, Foebus, Restutus and Fortunatus. With a gesture Foebus is calling for attention. The other persons hold conical glass beakers.

Nogara 1907, 65, 67, 71. Photo: Donati 1998, pl. 62. Drawing: C.L. Visconti 1866, Tav. S,1.