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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Roman Domestic Religion
PP361
House of the Double Lararia (VII. iii. 13)
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Features:
Wall Painting
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP360
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
In the kitchen was a cult painting. The scene showed the Genius pouring a libation over an altar with the Lares standing on either side with their rhyta and situlae. Below two serpents met at an altar. The painting is no longer preserved.
References:
Boyce 1937, p. 64 (#267); Giacobello 2008, p. 192 (#76)
Image reference:
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