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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Roman Domestic Religion
PP519
IX. vi. 4
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Features:
Wall Painting
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP518
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
In the rear kitchen, in the northeast corner of the room, was a cult painting. It sat above the hearth. On the north wall, the painting featured the Genius holding a cornucopia and pouring a libation onto an altar from a patera. The altar was furnished with offerings. On the east wall was a burning altar with the Lares holding rhyton and patera on either side. The property was destroyed in WWII and so the cult painting is no longer preserved.
References:
Not. Scavi 1879, p. 20; Boyce 1937, p. 86 (#430)
Image reference:
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