Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP526
IX, vii, 19
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP525
Structural type:
Wall Painting
Room function:
Unknown
Description:
In a small room (room k) between the garden and the kitchen was a cult painting. Boyce believed that the room was initially part of the garden and was directly connected to the kitchen via a now walled up doorway. The painting was on the east wall and featured a tripod which the Genius stood beside. The Genius held a cornucopia and a patera, from which he poured a libation onto the tripod. On the other side of the tripod stood the tibicen. Lower and to the right stood the camillus, holding a shallow dish and two taeniae. In the lower register were two serpents, gliding towards an altar which was in the centre. In the space between the painting and the south east corner of the room were further paintings. These featured kitchen items including a three pots (one decorated with a garland), a lagre bellied bottle, sausages, a calf's head, ribs on a spit, and a phallus.
References:
Boyce 1937, p. 88 (#438); Giacobello 2008, p. 209-210 (#106)
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