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Figure 9.1 Images of Ceres. A. Marble statue of Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus, depicted as the
goddess Ceres, wearing a flower garland and holding wheat sheaves in one hand and a cornucopia in
the other. First century ce. (Louvre, Paris.) B. From wall painting at Pompeii.
A is from Wikimedia Commons. B is from Yaggi, L. W., and T. L. Haines (1881), Museum of Antiquity
(A Description of Ancient Life), Western Publishing House.
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