Pompeii and HerculaneumReligion: Household Gods and Foreign Cults

“Priapus”, House of The Vetti, Find Target, http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Priapus/

Household GodsKamm. A, “Vesta”, Worship in the Home, The Romans, http://www.the-romans.co.uk/home.htm

Kamm. A, “Janus”, Worship in the Home, The Romans, http://www.the-romans.co.uk/home.htm

Showy. R, “The Lares Statues”, From the Ashes, San Diego, 23 March 2008, http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080323/images/home-ash5.jpg

Kamm. A, “The Lares Statues”, Worship in the Home, The Romans, http://www.the-romans.co.uk/g4/30.lar.jpg

Lares

“Household Lararium in Pompeii”, Lares, Find Target, Wikimedia, 2009, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Lararium,_Pompeji.JPG

Lararium

“Lararia”, House of Lararium of Achilles, Religioromano, 2007, http://www.religioromana.net/lararia.htm

Penates

Kamm. A, “Penates”, Worship in the Home, The Romans, http://www.the-romans.co.uk/home.htm

Kamm. A, “Aeneas sacrificing to Penates in their Cupboard”, Worship in the Home, The Romans, http://www.the-romans.co.uk/home.htm

The House of Vetti

Bishop. D and Eggers. D, “The House of Vetti”, Pompeii, Italy, 1997, http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/darlenebishop/rome/PompVettii.html

“The House of Vetti”, Myoops, Pompeii, Italy, 2005, http://www.myoops.org/twocw/mit/NR/rdonlyres/History/21H-405JSpring-2005/871F84C6-F507-400D-85AE-21935DCBF75D/0/chp_ancient_city.jpg

“Lararia”, House of Vetti, Pompeii, Religioromana, 2007, http://www.religioromana.net/lararia.htm

“Lararium”, House of Vetti, 2006, http://sites.google.com/site/ad79eruption/pompeii/regio-vi/reg-vi-ins-15/house-of-the-vettii

The House of The Tragic Poet

“Lararium”, The House of The Tragic Poet, Flickr, Yahoo, 2009, http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaeurialias/3803824265/

The House of Fawn

The House of Fawn, Arch, 2007,http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/schoenauer/arch528/lect05/c12.jpg

The House of Bicententery

Curran. L, The House of Bicentenary, 1997, http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/italy_except_rome_and_sicily/herculaneum/ac880727.html

The House of Octavius Quartio - Pompeii

Terez Anon, “Lares in The House of Octavius Quartio”, Trek Earth, 2004, http://department.monm.edu/classics/Courses/CLAS240/City/Pompeii.Lararium-%20Household%20Religion.htm

The House of The Black Salon - Herculaneum

Terez Anon, “The Black Salon”, The House of The Black Salon, America, 2004, http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo679173.htm

The House of The Golden Cupids

“The House of the Golden Cupids”, 79AD - Destruction and Re-discovery, Google, 2006,http://sites.google.com/site/ad79eruption/pompeii/regio-vi/reg-vi-ins-16/house-of-the-golden-cupids

Foreign CultsGreek Cult

“Hercules and Omphale Fresco”, Hercules and Omphale, Theoi, http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/F26.1.html

“Venus, Mars and Cupid”, House of Mars and Venus, Theoi, http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/F10.2.html

Temple of Apollo

“Temple of Apollo”, The monuments of ancient Pompeii, Pompeii, 2006, http://www.pompeii.org.uk/m.php/museum-temple-of-apollo-pompeii-en-64-m.htm

Egyptian Cult

“Receiving Io at Canopus, Temple of Isis”, Ancient Roman Fresco Pompeii, Theoi, Pompeii, 2005, http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/F41.1.html

Temple of Isis

Madison. P, “Temple of Isis”, Temple of Isis, Google, November 2004, http://paulmadison.com/italy/images/pompeii07.jpg

“Temple of Isis”, Answers, 1991, http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Brogi,_Giacomo_(1822-1881)_-_Pompei_-_Tempio_d%27Iside_-_n._5038_-_ca._1870.jpg/250px-Brogi,_Giacomo_(1822-1881)_-_Pompei_-_Tempio_d%27Iside_-_n._5038_-_ca._1870.jpg

“Statue of Isis”, Temple of Isis, Pompeii, http://www.pompeii.org.uk/ph.php/photo-gallery-temple-of-isis-en-37-ph.htm

Fresco

“Worship of Isis”, Temple of Isis, Wikipedia, 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Isis_(Pompeii)

“Fresco”, Temple of Isis, 10 February 2009, http://www.flickr.com/photos/bstorage/3271126942/

Sabazius

N. S. Gill, “Hand of Sabazius”, Sabazius, Ancient History, About, New York, 2009, http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/pompeii/ig/A-Day-in-Pompeii/Hand-of-Sabazius--8232-.htm

Judaism

“Judgement of Solomon Fresco,” House of the Physician, Flickr, 25 January 2008, http://www.flickr.com/photos/16472880@N06/2218609158/

ChristianityHouse of Venus – Linked Greek letters of ‘Chi’ and ‘Rho’ –

Monogram of ChristHouse of Bicentenary – mark on the wall – linked to wooden

crossHouse of Bicentenary – small wooden cupboard – presumed

as a small alterPompeii – word-square puzzle – rearranged to make Pater

Noster AO; ‘Our Father, Alpha and Omega’ twice.

R O M AO L I MM I L OA M O R