Cleveland Museum of Art

Lar

Date

1–25 CE

Medium

bronze with copper inlays

Culture

Italy, Rome, Early Imperial period

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This youthful bronze figure wears a short tunic with copper inlaid stripes and open-toed boots with animal-skin liners. The figure’s arms are missing, but based on other surviving examples, they likely held a libation dish and cornucopia. Even without these attributes, the figure can be identified through dress and stance as a type of Lar, or domestic deity, known as the Lar Familiaris (Household Lar), standing in a characteristic "quiet pose." Other types of Lares include the Lares Compitales and Lares Augusti (Lares of crossroads and of Augustus, respectively). This statuette likely stood with other small bronzes in a household shrine called a lararium .

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