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Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP264
House of Meleager (VI. ix. 2)
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
-
Structural type:
Wall Painting
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
Located on the west wall of the kitchen was a cult painting. The scene depicted a blue omphalos in the centre with a serpent coiled around it. On each side was a Lar holding a rhyton and situla. Each Lar stood between two laurel trees. Across the top of the scene stretched a garland of flowers and leaves. It no longer survives.
References:
Boyce 1937, pp. 49-50 (#174); Giacobello 2008, p. 175 (#53)
Image reference:
Anonymous ca. 1830s (Via Pompeii in Pictures)
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