Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman ... tells a story about female fertility and birth. He, meanwhile, is dressed in the quintessentially ...

Priestesses wielded political power and had the highest social standing possible for Roman women. Statues of priestesses holding items associated with their positions are very rare in southern ...

In Roman religion, she was symbolically connected to the moon, as its phases were thought to correspond with harvests, which could explain the female statue’s lunula pendant, per the journal.

Life and immortality. Everything we ask of art is in the eyes of these women, just two of the 58 extraordinary works of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered ... Archaeo Travelers/Archaeological Park of Pompeii The female statue has a symbol carved into its midsection ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...

Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures ... about female fertility and birth. He, meanwhile, is dressed in the quintessentially Roman toga that ...