Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
HC061
V. 15/15 (Apartment 2 at House of the Bicentenary)
Cult Space Type:
Shrine
Date:
79 A.D.
Structural Type:
Unknown
Associated
Cult Spaces:
-
Room Function:
Unknown
Description:
Located in one of the rooms on the upper floor was a cult space. It is uncertain what this cult space entailed other than its inclusion of various bronze statuettes of deities. This included Jupiter holding his thunderbolt and perhaps a sceptre (now lost), Mercury holding his money bag (now lost) and his caduceus, Minerva likely once holding a spear, and a statuette of a baby/toddler (perhaps Harpocrates?) holding a cornucopia on which sat an eagle with a serpent coiled around it. The location of these statuettes within the property is uncertain as they were excavated during the Bourbon tunnelling and so there are no records of their contexts.
References:
Marchetti 2009, pp. 71-73.
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