Tristan Hughes

I'm guessing this figure right in the centre, the main character, this is the diver.

So this would be face down in the tomb.

And what other things can we see here?

So we've got this kind of, this platform-like image here, and is there water there?

So what are these other details?

We've got some interesting kind of floral patterns and trees either side.

But what I also love, you can see the pupil of his eye and you can also see like hair as well.

So does that reveal more about the actual figure?

I mean, I haven't seen any other scene like this in any Greek wall painting or Roman wall painting or anything like it.

But talking about paint itself, I mean, so how was this actually created?

Do we know about that?

Okay, the big question.

So we've got this beautiful scene here found in a tomb.

What do we think this scene represents?

But the diver was not the only image found in this tomb.

The symposium was the drinking party of ancient Greek culture.

Guests would recline on couches, listen to music, discuss politics and philosophy, drink wine out of rounded cups called kailikes.

One of the men shown reclining at the banquet is engaged in a drinking game called kotobos, where you threw the dregs of wine out of your cup towards a target elsewhere in the room and

Another figure plays the lyre.

Another is a cup-bearer.