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Conclusion

What all these rooms demonstrate is that our modern distinction between religion and the home is insufficient for examining Roman Egypt. There was household worship, to be sure, and objects designated for specific religious purposes, such as the stone altars. There were also household objects, which might be seen as separate from religion without the context they were found in, such as the pot cover. But then there are the objects and areas that confuse these distinctions, like the wall paintings. Were they there to designate the room as a religious space? Were they there simply as decoration? Or was it a combination thereof, which we might not understand? 

So many of these things are impossible to say for sure. There were no recorded finds in the room with the wall paintings; it is difficult to say whether or not the finds in each room were there while it was occupied. This presents two possibilities, if we take what we find in each room to be accurate:

  1. Rooms were multi-use, and could be converted from everyday to religious with little effort.

  2. There was very little differentiation between religious and everyday, so everyday objects were also religious objects, and vice versa within the context of a home.

Either of these options means that Egyptian religion played a different part in culture than the modern observer, with strong distinctions between religious and domestic, might believe.