741582 Standing deity holding a horn and bucket, from Pompeii (fresco) by Roman, (1st century AD); 85.7x47 cm; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA; (add.info.: Fragment of a larger wall painting removed during a 19th-century excavation. The figure probably represents a Lar, a Roman ancestral god honored as a guardian of the family璽?砂??s welfare, and worshiped in a household shrine called a lararium. The god carries a drinking horn and a wine bucket, and wears a short, swirling cloak, all traditional attributes of a Lar. His pose indicates that he appeared as one of several figures in a horizontal mural within a lararium. ); 穢 Minneapolis Institute of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rubin; out of copyright.