Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a ... and what appears to be a papyrus roll.” Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture, fertility and motherhood. In Roman religion ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...