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Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP448
VIII. iii. 31
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
-
Structural type:
Wall Painting
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
In the kitchen was a cult painting. The painting was carried out on a white background and comprised of two registers. The upper register featured the Genius pouring a libation with a Lar on either side. The Lares held their typical rhyton and situla. The lower register of the painting featured two serpents meeting at an altar. The location of this cult painting is not certain.
References:
Boyce 1937, p. 76 (#357); Giacobello 2008, p. 199 (#88)
Image reference:
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