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| Keywords: Roman - Sacrificing Priest - Walters 54752.jpg Each Roman household had a lararium or household shrine in which small bronze figurines of deities including lares the divinities protecting the house were displayed The master of the house would make daily offerings at the shrine as well as more ceremonial offerings on important occasions This small figurine was found together with five others Walters 54 751 54 748 54 750 54 2290 and 54 749 in a lararium at Boscoreale the site of a Roman villa near Pompeii This Genius or priest stood before the household deities Isis-Fortuna Mercury a seated Jupiter Alexander Helios and a standing Jupiter These were divinities the family particularly venerated for the continuing good fortune of the household century 1 cast bronze with base cm 8 64 4 23 3 accession number 54 752 29743 De Prisco Boscoreale/Canessa 1906 by excavation Henry Walters Baltimore 1906 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1906 Pompeii and The Roman Villa National Gallery of Art Washington; Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles 2008-2009 place of origin Roman Empire Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman bronze statuettes from Boscoreale in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
