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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Roman Domestic Religion
PP296
VI. xiv. 39
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Features:
Wall Painting
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP617
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
On the east wall of the subterranean kitchen was a cult painting. The painting consisted of two registers. In the upper was a sacrificial scene depicting the Genius by an altar with a camillus. On either side of these figures were the Lares carrying rhyta and situlae. Across the top of the upper zone was a garland with plants decorating the background. In the lower zone was an altar with an offering of an egg with a serpent beside it. Behind the serpent was a vase. It is unknown if this cult space survives today.
References:
Bull. Inst. 1878, pp. 86, 91; Boyce 1937, pp. 53-54 (#206); Wallace Hadrill 1994, p. 213; Giacobello 2008, p. 179 (#61)
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