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HC030

VI. 11 and 13 (House of the Black Hall)

Cult Space Type:

Shrine

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Date:

79 A.D.

Features:

Aedicula

Associated
Cult Spaces:

HC031

Room Function:

Unknown

Description:

Currently located against the southern wall of the oecus (room g) was a wooden aedicula. It is believed, however, that the shrine originally sat in an unknown room on the first floor. The structure consisted of a simple wooden pediment which was 1.07m high. It had two wooden Corinthian columns with marble capitals. Above these sat a simple pediment. Statuettes were recorded as being from the inside of the shrine, however, it was not made clear what these were. Andrews notes that this may have included a statuette of Asclepius which was found in the rooms below with the fragments of the aedicula.

References:

Maiuri 1958, pp. 239-242; Orr 1972, p. 199 (#30); Wallace Hadrill 1994, pp. 205-206; Andrews 2006 Vol. 2, p. 298.

Image reference:

Binns 2016

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