Incense burners

[Caballo]

I'd like to ask what type of incense burners were used in temples and shrines, as I'm beginning a lararium.
I'm familiar with Coventina's shrine incense burners but none other.
Can someone point me in the right direction?


Cheers
Caballo

[jvrjenivs]

I've searched for some for quite some time in the past (when I was working on my lararium. Indeed, the Coventinas are the ones I could find. Julia Passamonti-Colamartino (of Venetican Cat) did a down sized copy of it for me. Unfortunatelly I wasn't able to identify other finds. I would say sites like Pompeii should have some in their archeological record.

Anyway, here is mine in my lararium.


(As the satues are made of bronze I still would like to have a bronze copy of it, so everything in there is bronze, instead of using TS and bronze next to each other.)

[Caballo]

Thanks-really lovely lararium- great work. I'm thinking of trying to recreate what a soldier up on the wall would have- so the casts from Corbridge
plus a small portable altar http://www.aurificina.treverica.de/en/index.html and figures, plus maybe a Coventina incense burner. Still in planning stage...

[Viventius]

Tazza were probably used for burning incense:


From an excavation



Replica in use at Newcastle

They don't tend to be as big as those from Chesters.

And a quick outline of what they are about:

Tazza: An Overview by Ray M. McBride
[ ...] initial thoughts from an ongoing study of the tazza, a small carinated bowl easily recognizable by the frill or piecrust decoration around the rim and on the carination. The vessel sits on a pedestal, which can take a variety of forms from long, wide, hollow and decorated. I considered past theories of function, demonstrating that lamps or incense burners were their most likely purpose. As to why the incense is being burnt, we can best assume it is for ritual reasons. The tazze appears in Britain in the Claudian period, with the Roman army. It seems to have formed an integral, if small, part of the repertoire of ceramic vessels, made and used by the military. The manufacturing of tazze clearly took place at the legionary kilns of the fortresses of Holt, Caerleon and York. This form follows the military on their campaigns throughout Britannia and into Caledonia. Its use passed from the military to the civilian population until the demise of its use in the third century.

[Caballo]

Thanks Sandra- thats really helpful and completely new to me (like so much else!)
Found this picture from the Museum of London from Verulamium area, H 72 mm; DM (rim) 112 mm; DM (base) 44 mm