The lararium was a shrine to the guardian spirits of the Roman household. Family members
performed daily rituals at this shrine to guarantee the protection of these domestic spirits, the most
significant of which were the Lares.
This paper focus on a new study about the domestic cult in Herculaneum, starting from the creation
of a corpus of all the lararia discovered in the ancient city, until the reconstruction of the rituals and
offerings that Romans made to the home altars.
