A Roman Wall Painting Fragment CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.E.-1ST CENTURY C.E. painted in vibrant, bright pigment, preserving a five-figure composition within an architectural setting, the goddess Nike alighting from the right toward an orant kneeling before her, the goddess with her wings outstretched, wearing a rich red voluminous garment with deep folds, a white sash billowing over her right shoulder, a wreath of laurel in her hair, a caduceus held forth in her left hand, proffering a wreath toward the supplicant before her who reaches up toward Nike with her right hand, clad in a yellow long-sleeved belted chiton with a green himation wrapped around her neck and legs, her curly hair bound in a band and arranged in a chignon, further to the left the goddess Venus seated regally wearing a pale blue himation over a deep blue peplos, a long staff in her right hand, bejeweled with armlets and a gold diadem in her long tresses, two nude winged Cupids frolicking behind, a column in the right foreground, a bird further to the right, the white groundline with a block of green below. Length 23 inches.