These were wax casts kept in a lararium, the family shrine.

For example, every house had a shrine, called a lararium, where the family worshipped daily.

The third room, the Lararium, is the smallest and most poorly preserved room in the palace.

I sat up and realized I was looking at the Lararium, the shrine of the household gods.

The more prosperous houses might have a small shrine to the household god(s); the lararium served this purpose in the case of the Romans.

The statuettes probably formed part of a public or domestic shrine or altar for local worship, known as a lararium.

The Lararium was a high three-sided shrine, a little temple with three pediments, and inside stood figures of old household gods.

It should also be noted that the prayers said at the lararium differed on the kalends, nones, and ides.

The venereum in the House of Sallustius included a bedchamber, a triclinium and a lararium.

Each household had an altar (lararium), at which the family members would offer prayers, perform rites, and interact with the household gods.

After the lararium was erected, the Via del Balcone Pensile became a cul-de-sac.

A household's lararium, a shrine to the Lar Familiaris, usually stood near the hearth or in a corner of the atrium.

Also, it contained the little chapel to the ancestral spirits (lararium), the household safe (arca) and sometimes a bust of the master of the house.

Sometimes the lararium, a shrine for the Lares, the gods of the household, was located in this portico, or it might be found in the atrium.

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.

Finally, into north-western corner of the peristyle is built a small lararium, or shrine to be used in worshiping the Lares Familiares, or family gods.

He's there most literally in the fresco from a lararium, an altar to the household gods from the House of the Centenary in Pompeii.

I sat up and I laid my hand on the Lararium, and looked at the spiderwebs in the trees of the garden, made visible by the climbing sun.

A lararium often had the appearance of a cupboard or a niche containing a small statue, a niche painted on a wall, or a small freestanding shrine.

Petronius, in his Satyricon, places an image of Venus among the Lares (household gods) of the freedman Trimalchio's lararium.

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.

Archaeologists discovered the wax tablets there, and the lararium, or shrine, in his house features a relief depicting the Temple of Jupiter during the 62 AD earthquake.

It contains several large rooms and suites of rooms; the main rooms are the Basilica, the Aula Regia, the Lararium, and the Triclinium.

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.