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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Roman Domestic Religion
HC063
VI. 28/29 (House of the Two Atriums)
Cult Space Type:
Shrine
Date:
79 A.D.
Features:
Altar; Niche
Associated
Cult Spaces:
HC029, HC062
Room Function:
Unknown
Description:
On the east wall of a rear room was a disused cult space. This consisted of a square niche which had been blocked up with masonry rubble. The tile projecting base of the niche had been cut off when the niche was filled in. The outline of the stucco layer on the interior of the niche is visible today. Below the niche was the remains of what may have been an altar due to the impressions left in the remaining stucco. This patch of stucco was white and featured two red vertical bands.
References:
Wallace Hadrill 1994, pp. 205-206; Marchetti 2009, pp. 79-80.
Image reference:
Monteix 2002
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