Misrestore

Using vase paintings, it has been possible to correct the arm positions that the Naples Museum had misrestored.

The musician plays the long-necked lute, and the fact that its neck extends up towward the right-hand dancer's face, while the middle part of the instrument has been virtually obliterated by water streaming in through the vault, caused the Spanish team to identify the woman as a flautist—and perhaps to misrestore her right hand.

Note that Labat, RSO32.117, 121 misrestores and consequently mistranslates this passage.