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Message:: [QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1154180, member: 5833"]I know what is depicted but can't help with the nature/use/age of your item.  She is a bacchante/maenad, one of the female followers of the wine god Bacchus/Dionysus, dancing, holding a <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-147#post-909941" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-147#post-909941">thyrsus/thyrsos</a> over her head.  Perhaps inspired by, but not an exact copy of the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNS0i6FsaLOx_Kyspy6RBkNoHg_5Kw:1573033865779&q=dancers+fresco+pompeii&tbm=isch&source=univ&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ACYBGNS0i6FsaLOx_Kyspy6RBkNoHg_5Kw:1573033865779&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB9Kfmp9XlAhVG2FkKHbSNBZEQsAR6BAgIEAE&biw=1600&bih=764#imgrc=_" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNS0i6FsaLOx_Kyspy6RBkNoHg_5Kw:1573033865779&q=dancers+fresco+pompeii&tbm=isch&source=univ&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ACYBGNS0i6FsaLOx_Kyspy6RBkNoHg_5Kw:1573033865779&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB9Kfmp9XlAhVG2FkKHbSNBZEQsAR6BAgIEAE&biw=1600&bih=764#imgrc=_" rel="nofollow">dancers found on the walls at Pompeii & Herculaneum.</a>[/QUOTE]