POMPEIANA de William Gell (éd. de 1832)

Plate LXXV - Comic scene

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This scene probably represents the witches of some barbarous nation, as introduced upon the stage. There was a tribe of Scythians named Hippopodes, to which we may conjecture these personages belong.

One holds a small mummy in her hand, which might seem to have a reference to the Egyptian colony of Colchos ; but Colchos was a part of Sarmatia, which might easily in a vague account be confounded with Scythia by Dionysius Periegetes. The borders are from the house of the Dioscuri.