It is one of the finds that depicts a four-legged friend, one of those objects that can be admired in the windows of the Antiquarium Turritano national museum in Porto Torres . It is a volute lamp with a triangular beak and a central disc decorated with a winged putto, probably Eros, playing with a small dog.

The object, dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, was chosen by the museum managers as a symbol of the world dog day which was celebrated yesterday , June 26, an occasion to remember its meaning and raise public awareness of the need to save as many as possible. The object was found in the area of the central baths, inserted in the context of the marvelous Palazzo re Barbaro. The baths occupy a block delimited by three streets and the walls were built with alternating bricks and blocks of tufa, limestone and bricks mixed with large tiles, while the foundations in blocks of limestone.

Even the Romans admired the great virtues of dogs, considered loyal to man. The dog's death was considered a moment of great pain and their memory was often worthily honored. Some funerary epigraphs written in Latin that show words of affection from their masters bear witness to this.

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