Mercury

1st century CE (Roman Imperial)

5.4 cm 11.5 cm 4 cm

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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 offering...

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Excavated by Ferruccio de Prisco, 1903, at the Villa del Fondo Acunzo, Boscoreale; C & E. Canessa, New York, Paris, and Naples, by 1906, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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