#posting bc although I had considered myself a fan of couples-lying-in-bed art i hadn't actually seen this one before

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Lovers of Bordeaux

Roman Gaul, Terracotta, 2nd-3rd Century AD

Text reads: Pistillvs fecit ("Pistillus made this")

#the dog!!!!! #the way one is holding the other's chin!!! #yet another artistic representation of a couple sharing a bed! who is doing it like the etruscans & romans for that!! #thoughts #tagamemnon #posting bc although I had considered myself a fan of couples-lying-in-bed art i hadn't actually seen this one before #I rlly wish I could find the context is was discovered in (like is it a funerary thing?) but nothing I read mentioned it #possibly bc it was discovered in 1850 we just don't know lol #I'd add it to the collection in my pinned post if I knew it was funerary but otherwise here it is