TOMB 16 (continuation)

The walls of the burial chamber were plastered with a kind of imitation marble in red, green and yellow. The central niche in the back wall shows painted fragments of a funeral banquet.
These kind of paintings were part of a Dionysian culture.
The many banquet scenes bear witness to the belief in a heavenly banquet.
Other examples can be found in the coloured floor mosaic of tomb 88,
in a painting in tomb 57, and on the sarcophagus from tomb 11.
In the hindmost niche of the left wall there is another Dionysian
scene in stucco relief. The old educator and companion of Dionysus,
Silenus, with a beard and a tired glance in his eyes, is sitting on a donkey next
to a small column. In his hand is a flower rod.
Opposite stands Pan, goat-footed and horned. The latter carries
a sheep-hook over his shoulder.
The ceiling of the niche was decorated with a painting of a peacock.

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