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ALT VAULT FRESCO AND FRIEZE, DOMUS TRANSITORIA, C1 CE. PALATINE MUSEUM Two sections of a C1 CE Roman fresco. The upper delicate vault decoration is painted on a white ground with floral tendrils, stylised blossoms, golden medallions, and diamond lozenges with small figures. Rough cavities indicate missing elements; based on examples beneath the Cœnatio Jovis, these held blue glass hemispheres. Below this runs a continuous plaster frieze depicting a Dionysiac narrative. A draped Maenad on the left and a reddish nude Satyr on the right bracket a central group of figures. Originally in Room A2 next to the palace nymphaeum, the white vault and its blue glass inlays would have been animated by the light of playing water before the Great Fire of 64 CE.





































