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

Cecilie Brøns, who authored the study and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art ... statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess ...

To see finer holdings of Roman art, you’d have to go to the Vatican ... a six-foot-seven-inch statue of the goddess Hestia (or Vesta to Romans), is also one of its most intentionally archaic.

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 ...

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.