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PP517

IX. vi. 3

Cult Space Type:

Cult Painting

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Date:

79 A.D.

Features:

Wall Painting

Associated
Cult Spaces: 

-

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 on the other side of the altar. Flanking the group were the Lares, holding rhyta and situlae, standing between shrubs. Below were two serpents meeting at an altar that was furnished with an egg. The painting is not preserved today.

References:

Boyce 1937, p. 86 (#428); Giacobello 2008, p. 209 (#104)

Image reference:

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