Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture, fertility and motherhood. In Roman religion, she was symbolically connected to the ...

the Greek goddess of love. The statue, which stands seven-and-a-half-feet tall and weighs more than half a ton, had reigned since 1988 as the centerpiece of the Greek and Roman antiquities ...

None were more striking than a 6.5-foot-tall statue of Aphrodite (the Greek goddess ... carving of a standing woman draped in a tunic, crafted in a style reminiscent of the Roman empire’s ...

This truly colossal statue and its companion ... (an Ethiopian king in Greek mythology), to which they and later the Romans made pilgrimages. When the Roman emperor Septimius Severus restored ...

Statue fragments of ... complete version of the monument, standing at an impressive 1.65 metres. Based on its stylistic features, it has been dated to the Roman Imperial Period (late 2nd to ...

The original statue would have been about half life-size and was probably intended to be of Fortuna, the goddess of good fortune, who was often worshipped by soldiers in the Roman army.

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

Each god needed an image – usually a statue or relief in stone or bronze ... Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the fireplace and the six virgins tended the sacred fire, baked sacred ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have ... a priestess in a cult dedicated to Ceres, the goddess of fertility, agriculture and crops, from ...

Statue of a Goddess, known as the Hestia Giustiniani, first half of 2nd century CE. Roman, Imperial Period. Torlonia Collection, Rome. — “Portrait of a Man, known as the Old Man of Otricoli ...