Archaeologists in Pompei have exposed rare, almost life-size graffiti that provides fresh insight into religious practices in the ancient city, before it was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the site said on Wednesday.
The discovery in this discovery features a large -scale fridge, which spreads three walls of a banquet hall, which presents a detailed imagination of initiation rituals for followers of Dionisus – the ancient Greek deity of alcohol, breeding, theater and religious ecstasy.
The initiation ritual, known as the mysteries of Dionisus, was secret religious rites, dedicated to God, promising spiritual enlightenment and possibly a blessed lifetime.
Fresco, dating, rituals for 40–30 BC, presents a deafening imagination of donisian followers in the states of dancing and hunting, which resembles Villas’s frescoes near the mysteries revealed 100 years ago.
Italian Culture Minister Alesandro Giuli said, “In 100 years, today, it will be remembered as a historic because the discovery we are presenting is historic.”
“With the villas of mysteries, this Fresco creates a unique will for the low-term aspects of the ancient Mediterranean life.”
Vishal fries showed the female followers of Dionisus as both dancers and fierce hunters, who carry a slaughter goat on their shoulders or enter their hands in their hands in the hands of a sword and an animal.
At the center, there is a fresco of a woman dressed in an elegant manner who is probably waiting for the start to start.
An upper frame depicts a fan, a fresh intestines, rosters and fish, live and sacrificed animals. Researchers stated that this Juxtaposition underlined the dual nature of donisian puja, with a revelation with primary sacrifice.
“The question is what you want to be in life, hunter or hunting?” Gabriel Zucrigel, director of Pompei, said.
