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    Lares (redirect from Lararium)
    some cases, the artistic display of the lararium seems to displace its religious function. The more public lararium is exceptionally large; it measures 1...
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  • deities: the Lar or Lares of the household or familia, whose shrine was a lararium; the Penates who guarded the storeroom (penus) of the innermost part of...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    confarreatio marriage were described as conducted in the atrium, in front of the lararium.[citation needed] The wedding couch or bed, the lectus genialis, was placed...
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    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...
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    likeness of the god (ca. 1st century AD). It is from a Roman home in France and was found in a household shrine (lararium). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore....
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    venereum in the House of Sallustius included a bedchamber, a triclinium and a lararium. Thomas Henry Dyer (1871). Pompeii: Its history, buildings, and antiquities...
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