Portrait of Faustina the Younger on a statue of a woman with cornucopiae

A statue larger than life. The wife of Marcus Aurelius after her death received from her spouse all those honours which were sanctioned by paganism. After the solemn apotheosis by which the senate and people of Rome admitted her to the honours of divine worship, she was represented with the emblems of various divinities. In the statue under notice she has the attributes of Concord. Clothed in a long tunic and an ample mantle which covers her head and upper part of her body, she has a patera in her right hand and the cornucopia in the left. On her feet are shoes. It is a work of great merit.

Inv. nr. 245. H. 2.18. Excavated in 1860.