Statuette of a Roman goddess
This is a Dea Nutrix figurine, representing the goddess of fertility. It shows a mother sitting on a wicker chair and feeding a baby at each breast. The head was broken during the Roman period.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1924/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Plummer, Edgar
- Material
- ceramicpipe clay
- Common Name
- statuette of a Roman goddess
- Simple Name
- figurine
- Period Classification
- Roman (43-410)
