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PP252

House of Hercules (VI. vii. 5/6)

Cult Space Type:

Shrine

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Date:

79 A.D.

Associated
Cult Spaces: 

PP251

Structural type:

Aediucla, Niche, Wall Painting, Stucco Relief

Room function:

Viridarium/Garden

Description:

In the northeast corner of the garden was a shrine, comprised of a simple aedicula that sat on a masonry podium. In the centre was a vaulted niche. The structure was elaborately decorated, its ceiling ornamented with red and blue painted flowers. Along the interior of the niche ran a moulded stucco cornice around the top corner with a red stripe running below it. On the back wall of the niche was a painted aedicula structure in the fourth style with garlands and a mask above which were the Lares with their rhyta and situlae. On each of the sidewalls was a painted candelabrum. A pair of serpents was painted underneath the niche moving towards an altar with offerings of a pine cone and two eggs.

References:

Boyce 1937, p. 47 (#162); Giacobello 2008, pp. 269-270 (V44)

Image reference:

Warscher ca. 1930s (Via Pompeii in Pictures)

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