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- kind were known generically as lararia (s. lararium) because they typically contained a Lares figure or two. Painted lararia from Pompeii show two Lares...
- welfare and prosperity of a Roman household. A household's lararium (plural lararia), a shrine to the Lar Familiaris and other domestic divinities, usually...
- their proper function well, the infant would be in danger. Hundreds of lararia, or family shrines, have been discovered at Pompeii, typically off the...
- tabernacle, as in tabernacle window. Many aediculae were household shrines (lararia) that held small altars or statues of the Lares and Di Penates. The Lares...
- inscribed name Vesuvius as a serpent in the decorative frescos of many lararia, or household shrines, surviving from Pompeii. An inscription from Capua...
- that was worshipped as a cult image or manifestation of Osiris. Roman lararia, or household shrines, contained statuettes of the penates, a varied group...
- Venus have been found in domestic murals, mosaics and household shrines (lararia). Petronius, in his Satyricon, places an image of Venus among the Lares...
- seem to have been responsible for at least some of the household shrines (lararia) and their deities. Household cults had state counterparts. In Vergil's...
- generically as lararia (plural lararium) because they typically housed a figure of a Lares, guardian deities in ancient Roman religion. Painted lararia from Pompeii...
- remarks their similarity to the serpents featured in domestic shrines (lararia) at Pompei; serpents are ****ociated with many earth-deities, and had protective...