Description

The wall painting is remnants of the interior decoration in an officer's apartment in the Echzell Limes fort. The painting imitates marble cladding up to half the height of the wall. There are columns on this that support the vaulted ceiling of the room. In the fields between the columns, figurative representations can be seen on the back wall. In the middle, Fortuna, with a cornucopia and a wheel, meets Hercules in a lion's skin, who is leaning casually on a tree trunk and holding his club in the crook of his arm.

On the right side, four shields frame the depiction of the seated Daedalus, who is gluing wings to the arms and legs of his son Icarus with wax. In this way, according to legend, the two wanted to escape from the captivity of the Cretan King Minos. The scene on the left also takes place on Crete: Theseus has penetrated the labyrinth of the bull-man Minotaur and kills the monster. In the middle of the vaulted ceiling stands the god Bacchus with a panther at his feet in a wreath of grapes.