Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP551
IX, ix, 12/13
Cult Space Type:
Cult Building
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP552, PP553
Structural type:
Sacellum
Room function:
Sacellum/Cult building
Description:
In the south west corner of a central courtyard was a small cult building. The room had a sloped roof and was open on its eastern side. At the east end of the structure stood a small tufa altar which was originally coated in stucco. The northern wall was coated in stucco and featured simple line drawings. These included an aedicual structure which had a male figure standing in the centre holding a palm branch and three taeniae. The southern and western walls were also coated in stucco, but a rougher variety. Near the cult building was found a terracotta female head, apparently part of a statue.
References:
Not. Scavi 1891, pp. 254-258; Boyce 1937, pp. 92-93 (#464)
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