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Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP221
V. iv. 13
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP220, PP222
Structural type:
Wall Painting
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
Located on the south wall of the kitchen was a cult painting. On a white panel was the painted depiction of two yellow serpents meeting at a small cylindrical altar. In the zone above was the figure of a Lar. The painting no longer survives.
References:
Not. Scavi 1905, pp. 87-90; Boyce 1937, p.42 (#127); Giacobello 2008, p. 170 (#46)
Image reference:
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