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Portable shrine 2nd - 5th century CE. Left: Shrine with doors closed. Right: with doors open. Made

Marble bust of the Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis. Roman copy after a Greek original (4th cent. BCE)

Head of Asclepius. Roman copy (second half of 2nd cent. CE) after a mid-4th cent. BCE Greek origina

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Lycian Apollo. Reconstituted ivory statue of the 3rd cent. CE, thought to be a copy of the original

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Head of Zeus. Artist unknown; Flavian period (69-96 CE). From Ephesus; now in the Ephesus Archaeol

Priestess Offering Poppies by Simeon Solomon, 1864. Image source: (X). Image license: Public Domaini

Hermes Chthonios, perhaps representing syncretism of Hermes in his Underworld aspect with a deceased

Venus CloacinaWarning to the faint-hearted: etymology of a historical slang word for genitalia ahead

Statuette of the goddess Artemis/Diana. Unknown Anatolian artist; 1st cent. BCE. Now in the Getty Vi

arnaerr:November - FeroniaIn ancient Roman religion, Feronia was a goddess associated with wildlife,

Ancient Roman marble statue of the goddess Cybele, depicting holding a cornucopia and attended by a

Ancient Greek or Roman sardonyx cameo depicting a group of Bacchic devotees. Artist unknown; 1st ce

Fragment of an ancient Roman wall fresco depicting a winged Victory. Artist unknown; late 2nd or ea

Roman ivory statue of Apollo, shown holding a lyre. Artist and date unknown. Photo credit: Wellcom

Apollo resting on a tripod. Roman copy (1st or early 2nd cent. CE) after a Greek original. Now in

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Clay oil lamp depicting Sol, 2nd century AD, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich. Photo by Carole R

honorthegods:Martius, fragment of a mosaic with the months of the year. First half third century CE.

Roman fresco from the lararium of the house of Iulius Polybius (IX 13,3) in Pompeii. Photo by By Wol

A reconstructed Column of Jupiter (Jupitersäule), Saalburg Roman Fort, Limes Germania (Germany) Pho

Lararium replicasFirst row: Wood Lararium kit 20 mm x 26.5 cm x 30 cm/Wood Lararium kit 25.5 cm x 27

Marble statue of Fortuna Pompejanum, idealized replica of a Roman villa, Aschaffenburg, Germany. Ph

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