Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP214
V. iv. 3
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP213
Structural type:
Wall Painting
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
On the eastern wall of the kitchen was a cult painting. The painting contained three registers. Only the bottoms of the figures in the upper register were preserved. This was believed to have depicted the Genius, who was the largest, with a tibicen and camillus standing on the far left. On each side stood a Lar, with a man leading a hog on the far left. The middle register contained only a serpent, and it was likely to have been advancing towards a destroyed altar. The lowest register contained depictions of kitchen utensils and food, including two sausages, an eel on a spit, a gridir on, a hog’s head, some indistinguishable objects, and several birds. Below the hog’s head was a depiction of a cooking pot on a tripod. The painting does not survive today.
References:
Boyce 1937, p. 40 (#119); Giacobello 2008, p. 169 (#44)
Image reference:
Anonymous 1901 (Via Pompeii in Pictures)