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Hearth with cooking utensils. A hearth (/ h ɑːr θ /) is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
Likewise, the hearth of the later Greek prytaneum was the community and government's ritual and secular focus. [6] Hestia's naming thus makes her a personification of the hearth and its fire, a symbol of society and family, also denoting authority and kingship. [7]
Hearth—The floor of a fireplace. The part of a hearth which projects into a room may be called the front or outer hearth. [22] Hearthstone—A large stone or other materials used as the hearth material. Insert—The fireplace insert is a device inserted into an existing masonry or prefabricated wood fireplace. [23]
The hearth was found in a cave complex that had previously been shielded by sands for 40,000 years Archaeologists find 60,000-year-old hearth that Neanderthals may have used to make tar Skip to ...
Household deities fit into two types; firstly, a specific deity – typically a goddess – often referred to as a hearth goddess or domestic goddess who is associated with the home and hearth, such as the ancient Greek Hestia.
The book divides architecture into four distinct elements: the hearth, the roof, the enclosure and the mound. [1] The origins of each element can be found in the traditional crafts of ancient "barbarians": hearth – metallurgy, ceramics; roof – carpentry; enclosure – textile, weaving; mound – earthwork
Vesta's sacred hearth was also named Iliaci foci ("hearth of Ilium/Troy"). [12] Worship of Vesta, like the worship of many gods, originated in the home, but in Roman historical tradition, it became an established cult of state during the reign of either Romulus, [13] or Numa Pompilius [14] (sources disagree, but most say Numa). [15]
The king's hearth was hence connected with Tabiti, and was therefore an inviolable symbol of the prosperity of his people and a token of royal power, and Tabiti herself was connected with royal power, as attested by the Scythian king Idanthyrsos calling her the "Queen of the Scythians" in 513 BC, [9] [10] with this characterisation of Tabiti ...