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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Roman Domestic Religion

HC014
IV. 21 (House of the Deer)
Cult Space Type:
Shrine



Date:
79 A.D.
Features:
Aedicula
Associated
Cult Spaces:
HC060
Room Function:
Unknown
Description:
On the north wall of a room (no. 3) was a masonry base believed to belong to an aedicula shrine. However, Maiuri only suspected this feature as having a cultic function as no other cult spaces could be identified by him in the house.
References:
Maiuri 1958, pp. 304-306; Orr 1972, p. 195 (#14); Wallace Hadrill 1994, p. 201.
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