A small fresco depicting, on a blue-pink field, an elegant composition of fish in yellow-brown tones, enlivened by white reflections, set on a brown plane adorned with stylized seaweed.
Two of the fish, overlapping to form a cross, raise their tails upwards, while a sinuous moray eel, with its curved body, dominates the scene, overshadowing a large fish with its mouth wide open.
Despite the presence of vegetation and fresh fish, the artwork does not aim for naturalistic fidelity but instead belongs to a refined decorative language, using iconographic schemes that are more decorative than naturalistic.
Removed from its original context during the 18th-century excavations commissioned by King Charles III of Bourbon, the fresco is now housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.