Category: Ancient Greece

Ancient Greek costume and fashion history. Military, nobility, peasants, decoration, culture

Statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, fertility and marriage.

Ancient, Roman, Statue, Ceres, Tunica, Chiton, Marbles, British Museum,

A statue of Ceres, crowned in the manner of the Egyptian Isis. This figure is clothed in a very long and ample tunic descending quite to the ground, leaving visible only the extremities of the feet; the sleeves are extremely full, falling down to the elbows, and fastened, along the upper side of the arms, only by fibulae.