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Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP199
House of N. Fufidius Successus (V. ii. g)
Cult Space Type:
Shrine
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP198
Structural type:
Unknown
Room function:
Peristyle/Portico
Description:
On the west wall of the portico was a cult space. This cult space was comprised of an unusual arrangement, consisting of a masonry bench above a tufa slab embedded in the wall surrounded by an aedicula façade. The structure sat 1.30m above the ground. In the centre of the tufa slab was a phallus in relief. A similar phallus was found embedded up high in the eastern wall of the garden also surrounded by an aedicula façade. This shrine does not survive today.
References:
Boyce 1937, p. 36 (#105)
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