Small Shrine

Structure attached to the College of the Augustales, Herculaneum. Outside the main entrance to the College of the Augustales on Decimanus Maximus is an aedicula (small shrine) with marble columns, variously identified as a triclinium connected to the Seat of the Augustales, or as the building for the Guardian Spirits of Herculaneum, mentioned in an inscription which commemorates the reconstruction by Emperor Vespasian following an earthquake reasonably placed in the middle of the 70s of the 1st century AD.