Private religion

1. Introduction
2. The Lares and Genius in Ostia
3. Deities in the facade
4. Entering a building
5. Niches in the courtyard

  6. Aediculae in the courtyard
  7. Reliefs in the courtyard
  8. Deities below the courtyard
  9. Cult rooms
10. Cult rooms in Rome

11. Deities in shops
12. Deities in bars
13. Deities and crafts
14. Deities in the domus
15. Deities in graffiti

16. Private religion and the painters
17. Deities at the crossroads: inscriptions
18. Deities at the crossroads: shrines
19. Robigus and the king
20. The book "Living and Working with the Gods"

A domestic shrine (lararium) in the House of the Centenary (IX.8.6) in Pompeii.
Bacchus stands in front of Mount Vesuvius. A snake, the Genius Loci, approaches an altar. The two dancing Lares Familiares flank a niche.
Photo top left (Archaeological Museum, Naples): Wikimedia, ArchaiOptix. Photo top right (c. 1880) and watercolour bottom (1882): pompeiiinpictures.com.