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- some cases, the artistic display of the lararium seems to displace its religious function. The more public lararium is exceptionally large; it measures 1...
- cared for the welfare and prosperity of a Roman household. A household's lararium (plural lararia), a shrine to the Lar Familiaris and other domestic divinities...
- smoke of burnt offerings could vent through the opening in the roof. Each lararium features a panel fresco containing the same theme: two peripheral figures...
- deities: the Lar or Lares of the household or familia, whose shrine was a lararium; the Penates who guarded the storeroom (****) of the innermost part of...
- largest room, flanked by smaller reception rooms, the so-called Basilica and Lararium. The northern exterior of these three rooms had a portico that continued...
- Dionysian cult. Southwest of the atrium of house 1 in Room 12 is a large lararium or household shrine built against the south wall. It consists of two bands...
- business records and wax tablets, as well as for its wall-paintings. The lararium, or shrine of the lares, features a relief depicting the Temple of Jupiter...
- on the day of birth, usually in the household shrine (lararium). The decoration of a lararium often shows the Genius in the role of the person carrying...
- prosperous houses might have a small shrine to the household god(s); the lararium served this purpose in the case of the Romans. The gods would be treated...
- Rare depiction of Vesta in human form, as the central figure from the Lararium of a bakery at Pompeii, 1st century Major cult center Temple of Vesta,...