THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Roman Domestic Religion
PP555
IX. ix. c
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Features:
Wall Painting
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP554
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
On the northwest corner of the kitchen was a cult painting. On the west wall was a stucco panel which featured the Genius holding a cornucopia and pouring a libation onto a flaming imitation marble cylindrical altar. Across the top of this panel stretched red, yellow, and green garlands. The entire zone below the panel was decorated with plants. On the north wall was the larger scene. This also had garlands stretched across the top. In the centre was another burning altar with an offering of an egg on top. Around the altar coiled a serpent. On either side stood the Lares, holding rhyton and situla. Each Lar stood between two trees. In the lower zone were plants and two brown and yellow serpents one on each side of an altar. The altar was also on fire and held an offering of two eggs. At the eastern egg of the north wall were further paintings, these featuring food objects such as a cooking pot, an eel on a spit, a hog's head, skewered meat, sausages, and birds suspended from a cord. On the front of the hearth was painted a ham. All of these objects were painted in red.
References:
Boyce 1937, pp. 93-94 (#468); Giacobello 2008, p. 214-215 (#111)
Image reference:
Pompeii in Pictures 2009