Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
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VI. i. 1
Cult Space Type:
Cult Room
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
-
Structural type:
Sacrarium
Room function:
Sacrarium/Cult Room
Description:
Located in the northeast corner of the building was a cult room with a rectangular plan and no windows. In the passageway outside the cult room on the eastern end of the room was a niche, sitting 1.35m above the ground. The interior of the niche was coated in stucco and painted with red flowers. The walls around the niche were coated in red stucco, with the niche sitting off-centre in the panel. On the northern wall of this passageway was a bench. The walls of the cult room were also painted red with low benches running on three sides of the room. A niche was present on the northern wall, directly opposite the door. It sat 1.10m above the ground and possessed a vaulted ceiling. Its interior was coated in white stucco and decorated with floral decals. The corners of the niche were outlined with red stripes. Initially, there was a figure on the back wall of the niche which has now faded, which depicted a woman reclining on a kline holding a cornucopia with a garland with fruit across the top. On the edge of the opening was a slightly raised border of stucco. On the floor in front of the niche was a masonry altar decorated with the figure of a pig with a garland on its head.
References:
Boyce 1937, p. 43 (#132)
Image reference:
Pompeii Sites 1995