"Girls Playing with Milk Vetches, by unknown artist, 20-37, 1st Century B.D. - 1st Century A.D., painting on marble, 49 x 42 cm"

"Girls Playing with Milk Vetches, by unknown artist, 20-37, 1st Century B.D. - 1st Century A.D., painting on marble, 49 x 42 cm Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Room LXVIII, inv. 9562. Whole artwork view. Representation of the moment preceeding the slaughter of the Niobids; in the close-up, Aglaia and Ilaria, two of Niobe's daughters, play astragals, rudimentary dice made of animal neck vertebra; in the foreground the mother of the two maiden is persuaded by Phoebe, the Moon goddess, to beg Lathona's pardon; Apollo's and Artemis' mother, on the left, who wraps herself around her mantle, hurt by the words of Niobe's words; above on the left is the sign of the author - SKETCH BY ALEXANDER ATHENIENSIS - placed on three lines, while nearby each character is written his name, according to an Augustian Age archaism; from Ercolano. (Photo by Luigi Spina/Electa/Mondadori Portfolio)",Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Room LXVIII, inv. 9562. Whole artwork view. Representation of the moment preceeding the slaughter of the Niobids; in the close-up, Aglaia and Ilaria, two of Niobe's daughters, play astragals, rudimentary dice made of animal neck vertebra; in the foreground the mother of the two maiden is persuaded by Phoebe, the Moon goddess, to beg Lathona's pardon; Apollo's and Artemis' mother, on the left, who wraps herself around her mantle, hurt by the words of Niobe's words; above on the left is the sign of the author - SKETCH BY ALEXANDER ATHENIENSIS - placed on three lines, while nearby each character is written his name, according to an Augustian Age archaism; from Ercolano.