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PP620

VII, vi, 38

Cult Space Type:

Cult Painting

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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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