The Gift, by unknown artist, 40-30, 1st Century B.C., ripped fresco, 81 x 62 cm

Whole artwork view. On a white background, scene representing a tribute to Dionysus in front of an altar, where are placed a ladder and a branch of palm, hosting a kantharos, typical Greek bowl; on the background, a tree adorned with tyrsus, stick sacred to Dionysus, and a tambourine tied to a bend; at both sides, two believers, one of whom is a barefoot child, and the second one a man wearing a short tunic and a tyrsus against which he lays his weight, bring gift to offer the god with; pillar and tree are tied together as a representation of the monumentalization of a sacred landscape; from VI Insula Occidentalis.