Pompeii. Street shrine at IX.11.1 with altar and painting of twelve gods.

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Detail of Venus, Mercury and Proserpina outside IX.11.1.  December 2006.

Venus: Long red Chiton, hip mantle pulled over her head, right hand on hip, Eros looks over her right shoulder.

 

Detail of Hercules between Minerva and Venus outside IX.11.1.  December 2006.

Hercules: Naked with lion skin over left shoulder, club in left hand and Skyphos (wine cup) in the right hand.

 

Detail of Minerva outside IX.11.1.  December 2006.

Minerva: Green Chiton, red coat and Corinthian helmet, on the chest the Gorgoneion, with lance to the left and shield on the ground to the right.

 

 

Jupiter, Juno and Mars were not visible in December 2006.

 

 

Detail of painted figure, outside IX.11.1.  December 2006.

 

Detail of painted Genius, outside IX.11.1.  December 2006.

 

Detail of painted inscription outside IX.11.1.  December 2006.

This according to Frohlich, which he reads (left to right and top to bottom), is

SVCVVSSVS (or Successus?), VICTOR, AXCLIIPIADIIS (i.e. Asclepiades),  and COSSTAS, with what appears to be VICI/MAGISTRI in the centre, but the condition is poor and the text is hard to read.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (p.337)

 

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this read

 

Successus Victor

A<s=X>clepiades Co<n=S>sta(n)s       [CIL IV 7855]

 

 

 

 

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