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PP032

House of the Chapel (I. iii. 24)

Cult Space Type:

Cult Painting

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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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