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Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP517
IX, vi, 3
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
Structural type:
Wall Painting
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
On the east wall of the kitchen was a cult painting. It featured an altar beside which the Genius stood. A tibicen was present onn the other side of the altar. Flanking the group were the Lares holding rhyton and situla standing between shrubs. Below were two serpents confronting at an altar which was furnished with an egg.
References:
Boyce 1937, p. 86 (#428); Giacobello 2008, p. 209 (#104)
Image reference:
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