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PP413

VII. xii. 13

Cult Space Type:

Shrine

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Date:

79 A.D.

Associated
Cult Spaces: 

-

Structural type:

Aedicula, Niche, Wall Painting

Room function:

Commercial space (Industrial and Other)

Description:

On the east wall of the bakery space was a cult space. This consisted of a niche, sitting 2.10m above the ground, with accompanying cult paintings. The niche was rectangular and had a projecting base, its interior was coated with white stucco and decorated with spots of various colours. Underneath the niche were embedded bricks, which formed a sort of aedicula pediment. Within this structure was a painted rooster and peacock. Cult paintings took up the entire height of the wall, however, only a section of the larger painting was preserved by the time of Boyce's recording. This included traces of a Lar and two serpents at an altar with Vesta holding a sceptre. A donkey stood beside the goddess. These wall paintings no longer survive today.

References:

Boyce 1937, p. 71 (#318)

Image reference:

Pompeii in Pictures 2005

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