Location of the College of the Augustali (Ins VI, 21-24) .. View of the Decumanus Maximus looking west, with the College of the Augustali in the top left of the photograph Plan of the Building .. ...Plan of the Building Key: A. Atrium B. Sacellum C. Porter's room Description ,, The sacellum consists of a great hall resembling a columned atrium (pictured right) common in private dwellings. .. In the centre of the facing wall is a small room that served as the actual sacellum, where rites in honour of the Emperor were performed. The fine frescoes (pictured below) include panels of Hercules, Juno and Minerva and Neptune and Amphitrite. .. .. The College of the Augustali lies at the corner of Cardo III where it intersects with Herculaneum's main street, the Decumanus Maximus. It is thought that the building was the centre of the cult of the Emperor Augustus and the headquarters of the Collegium Augustalium (or possibly even the local curia). .. .. The columned atrium sustains the roof, with light entering via a skylight. Outwith the panels, the walls are decorated with frescoes in the Fourth Style. The floor of the actual sacellum (in the centre pf the far wall) has a marble pavement in opus sectile, a geometric pattern of motifs in polychromed marble (pictured right). ,, A small room on the right of the building was reserved for the porter, whose remains were found on the bed. .. ..

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