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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Roman Domestic Religion
PP552
IX. ix. 12/13
Cult Space Type:
Shrine
Date:
79 A.D.
Features:
Niche, Wall Painting
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP551, PP553
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
In the north wall of the kitchen was a square niche. The niche sat 1.50m above the floor and had a projecting tile base. On the wall around the niche were traces of a cult painting. In the centre was the Genius pouring a libation from a patera onto an altar with a tibicen standing behind him. On each side stood the Lares, carrying rhyton and patera. The shrine is in a bad state of preservation today.
References:
Not. Scavi 1891, pp. 254-258; Boyce 1937, p. 93 (#465)
Image reference:
Pompeii in Pictures 2009
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