Roman household gods or Lares in a Lararium shrine, showing two young men, genii of Augustus, in tunics and coturn sandals with drinking horns, found in Herculaneum 1. A Lustrazio or Lustratio purification rite of a dairy cow from a marble bas-relief found in Otricoli 2. Lari Viali od Augusti e Lustrazione. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi from Giulio Ferrario’s Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1843.

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