These were wax casts kept in a " lararium ", the family shrine.
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The venereum in the House of Sallustius included a bedchamber, a triclinium and a lararium.
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Deities were also maintained in home shrines ( " lararium " ), such as Hestia honored in homes as the goddess of fire hearth.
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I hadn't planned to visit the House of the Lararium of Achilles, one of Pompeii's oldest, but it was open and I slid in.
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At Pompeii, the Lares and " lararium " of the sophisticated, unpretentious and artistically restrained House of Menander were associated with its servant quarters and adjacent agricultural estate.
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Petronius, in his " Satyricon ", places an image of Venus among the Lares ( household gods ) of the freedman Trimalchio's " lararium ".
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By the early Imperial period, household shrines of any kind were known generically as " lararia " ( s . " lararium " ) because they typically contained a Lares figure or two.
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The Ducal Palace featured several rooms that reflect Federico's devotion to Classical and humanistic studies and served his daily routine, which included visiting the palace's " lararium " and reading Greek literature.
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Only two objects were present in the atrium of Caecilius in Pompeii : a small bronze box that stored precious family items and the " lararium ", a small shrine to the household gods, the Lares.
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In homes where the " lararium " was built into the wall, the " focus " was sometimes built of raised brick into four sides, constructed against a baseboard on which a fire was lit.