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East wall
Left – a pear in this context may signify Demeter (Cereus) the mother of Persephone (see below)
Lower Centre – an incense burner signifying food for the gods
Upper centre – laurel leaves signifying apotheosis
Right – a pomegranate denoted the presences of the partial underworld divinity Persephone
and was also a symbol of betrothal, fecundity and rebirth
Villa di P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale - cubiculum M, lateral walls