Two vignettes of Cupids or genii playing ancient games. Above; three cupids play on a two-wheeled chariot or Birotum as if rehearsing for the Circus. Below; three genii play a game of hide and seek. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own 鈥楢ntichita di Ercolano' (Antiquities of Herculaneum); Rome; 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.