Carnarium
Carnarium
1. A larder (Plaut. Curc. 2.3, 45; Plin. Nat. 19.57); used also for sheltering plants in the winter (Plin. Nat. 18.227).
2. In the more modest dwellings a bar or beam, furnished with meat-hooks or pegs, hung against the wall and served the same purpose (Plaut. Capt. 4.4, 6). A carnarium of this sort is figured under CAUPONA A fork (furca) was used in taking down and replacing joints of meat (Petron. 135, 4; 136, 1).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.