Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

De balneis Puteolanis
Italy, ca. 1400
MS G.74 fol. 11r

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Bath, Pozzuoli, Subvenit Homini -- In a cave on hillside, couple, seated, embraces.
In a second cave, male figure hands drinking vessel to male figure reclining on bed (doctoring).
Below, in a third cave on hillside, group of nude male figures bathe. One figure pours water from pitcher over head of another figure, bent over, having back rubbed by a third figure.