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Pompeii. Street Altar outside IX.12.7 on corner of vicolo with IX.13.

 

Street Altar outside IX.12.7. Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

Street Altar outside IX.12.7.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

IX.12.7 May 2010. Remains of painted shrine on corner of insula.

IX.12.7 May 2010.  Remains of painted shrine on corner of insula.

 

IX.12.7 May 2010. Remains of painted shrine on corner of insula.

IX.12.7 May 2010.  Remains of painted shrine on corner of insula.

 

Street Altar outside IX.12.7. Painting above altar. Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

Street Altar outside IX.12.7. Painting above altar.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

Street Altar outside IX.12.7. Old undated picture. Fröhlich lists four paintings and describes the painting on the altar. 1. Top left: Two gladiators in combat. 2. Top right: Two Lares in green tunics lean on pillars. A genius is making a sacrifice at a portable altar. Three other similar people from an older picture are also visible through the white background. 3. Bottom left: Two large snakes flanking a round altar. 4. Bottom right: Two garlands with five persons in white garments in a semicircle. The altar: This was decorated with sausages and pigs heads. See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (p. 339, F71, T: 58,2). Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

Street Altar outside IX.12.7. Old undated picture.

Fröhlich lists four paintings and describes the painting on the altar.

1.    Top left: Two gladiators in combat.

2.  Top right: Two Lares in green tunics lean on pillars. A genius is making a sacrifice at a portable altar.

Three other similar people from an older picture are also visible through the white background.

3.  Bottom left: Two large snakes flanking a round altar.

4.  Bottom right: Two garlands with five persons in white garments in a semicircle.

The altar: This was decorated with sausages and pigs heads.

See Fröhlich, T., 1991. Lararien und Fassadenbilder in den Vesuvstädten. Mainz: von Zabern. (p. 339, F71, T: 58,2).

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

 

Street Altar outside IX.12.7 on corner of alley with IX.13. December 2005.

Street Altar outside IX.12.7 on corner of alley with IX.13. December 2005.

 

Street altar at IX.12.7. December 2005.

Street altar at IX.12.7. December 2005.

 

Graffiti and street altar at IX.12.7. December 2005.

Graffiti and street altar at IX.12.7. December 2005.

 

Top of street altar at IX.12.7. May 2010.

Top of street altar at IX.12.7. May 2010.

 

 

 

 

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