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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- well as a room behind the shop where customers could eat their meals: the lararium with frescoes of the Lares and Mercury and Dionysus and a triclinium decorated...
- rituals for deities.: 100–101  Deities were also maintained in home shrines (lararium), such as Hestia honored in homes as the goddess of fire hearth.: 100–101 ...
- venereum in the House of Sallustius included a bedchamber, a triclinium and a lararium. Thomas Henry Dyer (1871). Pompeii: Its history, buildings, and antiquities...
- in ancient Rome was the focus, a hearth that was placed in front of the lararium, the household altar which contained small sculptures of the household...