altar-shelf

Updated: June 9, 2025

Somewhere in one of the bays of the hall, at the back of the peristyle court, or elsewhere, would be found a small shrine for the worship of the domestic gods. This was variously constructed. Sometimes it was a niche or recess containing paintings or little effigies and with an altar or altar-shelf beneath, sometimes a miniature temple erected against the wall.

T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker - Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul