A Duo of Divine Bountiful Ladies
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Fortuna or Tyche, a Graeco-Roman personification of nature's profusion, holds a cornucopia in her left hand and pours a libation with her right. Vault painting. Cubiculum II, catacomb of Vigna Randanini.


109. In another embodiment of nature's abundance, Demeter (or Ceres, the Roman goddess of the fruitful earth) is depicted as a fashionable Roman matron. With her right hand, she sprinkles grain from a sheaf; in her left, she bears aloft the flaming torch of life. Wall painting. Cubiculum O, catacomb of Via Latina.
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