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PP264

House of Meleager (VI. ix. 2)

Cult Space Type:

Cult Painting

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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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