From Pompeii, from the so-called House of the Doctor, comes three frescoes, dated from
the 1st century, containing scenes starred by Pigmees. The paintings show: a fight between the
little creatures and animals from the Nile; a banquet where some of the invited are entertained
with sexual intercourse; and a judgement, where a very young child is upon an altar and woman
cries to the judge. There have been several interpretations for this triptych, defending the main
one the Alexandrian origin of its subjects. With some other researches before, we agree that the
last panel depicts the biblical theme of «The Judgement of Solomon», but we also propose that
one must read the three panels as being part of a decorative program, which pretends to show
ethnic stereotypes of some of the Roman subdued people, like the Egyptians, the Greeks and
the Jews.