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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
Roman Domestic Religion
PP611
Hospitum of Gabinius (VI. ix. 1 and 14)
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Features:
Wall Painting
Associated
Cult Spaces:
PP610
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
Located in the kitchen was a cult painting. It was described by excavators in the 1840s as the "usual picture of the Lares," so it is uncertain what this exactly entailed. The painting is no longer preserved and its location within the room is uncertain.
References:
Boyce 1937, p. 49 (#173)
Image reference:
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