Statues of priestesses holding items associated with their positions are very rare in southern Italy, the researchers said. The man is wearing a toga indicating that he is a Roman citizen.

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a priestess ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Experts believe the use of a Roman statue as fill for a Christian church sheds new light on the Late Antique period from the fourth to six centuries A.D. When digging through the rubble of an ...

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 ...

The male figure wears a simple toga, while the woman ... which could explain the female statue’s lunula pendant, per the journal. “Since women in Roman society were commonly relegated to ...

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis ... The male figure is depicted wearing a simple toga, while the female figure is adorned with a large cloak ...