VII.15.7 Pompeii. Dwelling.

Linked to VII.15.6. Excavated 1859, 1872.

VII.15.7 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking north-west from entrance.

VII.15.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north from entrance doorway.

VII.15.7 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking north across atrium towards rear wall.

VII.15.7 Pompeii. September 2005. Looking across atrium to rear and east wall.

According to Boyce –

In the kitchen is a lararium painting: In the centre stands a blazing altar; on the right of it a male figure, clad in long garment and holding in his left hand an acerra, stretches his right over the top of the altar – apparently the Genius; on the left of the altar is a female figure similarly clad and holding her right hand over the altar – perhaps the Juno. On each side of this central group stands a wreathed Lar, wearing tunic and pallium and holding rhyton and patera.

In the zone below, a single serpent approaches an altar.

He quotes references – Sogliano 13, Fiorelli, Scavi, 105, no.19; Fiorelli, Descr., 311; Niccolini, ii, Descr. Gen.,63.

See Boyce G. K., 1937. Corpus of the Lararia of Pompeii. Rome: MAAR 14. (p.72, no. 331).

VII.7 Pompeii. December 2007.                         Vicolo del Gallo looking west.                         VII.15.7 on right.