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Tondo (circular portrait) of a high-society Pompeian woman, richly dressed with gold-threaded hair and large gold earrings, bringing the stylus to the mouth and holding the wax tablets (so-called "Sappho"). Discovered in 1760 in Pompeii (VI, Insula Occidentalis). Dates c. 55–79 CE. National Archaeological Museum of Naples.