Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
PP620
VII, vi, 38
Cult Space Type:
Cult Painting
Date:
79 A.D.
Associated
Cult Spaces:
Structural type:
Wall Painting
Room function:
Culina/Kitchen
Description:
Located on the wall of the kitchen was a cult painting. This was comprised of two registers. The upper depicted the Genius in the centre sacrificing at a cylindrical altar. He was shown carrying a cornucopia. On the other side of the altar was a tibicen. On either side of these central figures were two smaller figures, a camillus and one leading a pig. The Lares flanked the upper scene, pouring wine from their rhyta into their situla. Above were three garlands with taeniae. Seperating the registers was a thick red line, which joined into the border which framed the entire cult painting. The lower register featured a central cylindrical altar furnished with eggs at which two serpents meet. The serpents were among green foliage.
References:
Fröhlich 1991, p. 292 (L98); Pompeii in Pictures 2010.
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