Images of Status and Identity

Tomb from Isola Sacra Cemetery near Ostia second-third century CE

Tomb of the Midwife
Isola Sacra Cemetery

Relief from Tomb of woman named Rabiria. Found on Appian Way in Rome, now in the National Museum. First century C.E.

Statue of Woman in Guise of Venus. Mid second century C.E. Naples Museum.

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Beth Severy-Hoven, Macalester College
2/19/2004