Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP048
House of the Ephebus (I. vii. 10-12)
Cult Space Type:
Shrine
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP046, PP047, PP049
Structural type:
Aediucla, Niche, Stucco Relief
Room function:
Peristyle/Portico
Description:
Located in the northwest corner of the peristyle was a shrine. This shrine consisted of an aedicula with a central apsidal niche sitting on a podium. The podium was painted in imitation yellow marble. The ceiling of the niche was shell-shaped stucco with a dark blue background and a light-coloured stucco frieze. The pillars of the structure were decorated in stucco with motifs of candelabras. In the frieze of the tympanum were cupids. Within the niche was a low square plinth painted in a dark brick colour used to support a statuette.
References:
Not. Scavi 1927, pp. 50-52; Giacobello 2008, pp. 254-255 (V8).
Image reference:
Cooper 2019