Altar for the spirits protecting roads and houses (Lares) displayed at the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt, Germany. 

Lares were guardian deities in ancient Roman religion. Their origin is uncertain; they may have been hero-ancestors, guardians of the hearth, fields, boundaries, or fruitfulness, or an amalgamation of these.

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