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Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP032
House of the Chapel (I. iii. 24)
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
-
Structural type:
Wall Painting
Room function:
Viridarium/Garden
Description:
On the south wall of the peristyle was a cult painting. It depicted the Genius holding a cornucopia and patera, pouring a libation onto an altar. Beside the Genius was the camillus who also held a patera. Opposite stood the tibicen and the popa, who led a pig for sacrifice. Only one Lar was preserved when Boyce recorded the painting. A red and yellow serpent coiled around an altar in the lower register of the scene. The painting has disappeared today.
References:
Fiorelli 1873, p. 74, 106; Fiorelli 1875, pp. 56-57; Boyce 1937, p. 24 (#26); Giacobello 2008, pp. 134-134 (#6)
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