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According to the letter the museum staff are "preaching in the wilderness [while their] leaders turn a deaf ear [and the workers] survive in a general malaise."
The murals were found in the Villa of the Antonines, a site named after a famous dynasty of emperors that include Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Veras, and the emperor Commodus.