THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Roman Domestic Religion
PP526
IX. vii. 19
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Features:
Wall Painting
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP525
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 with the Genius beside it. 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 patera and two taeniae. In the lower register were two serpents, moving towards an altar in the centre. In the space between the painting and the southeast corner of the room were further paintings. These featured kitchen items including three pots (one decorated with a garland), a large bellied bottle, sausages, a calf's head, ribs on a spit, and a phallus. The painting does not survive today and the property is not fully excavated.
References:
Boyce 1937, p. 88 (#438); Giacobello 2008, p. 209-210 (#106)
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