A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 224
the group stands a man, perhaps the brides father. To left andright of this scene of everyday Roman life we have the mythologicalpersonages whose attendance at the wedding may be supposedto be of good augury—Mars, Victory and Fortune. The claspingof hands was followed by a sacrifice to Jupiter, and… … Fig. 251.—Roman Wedding Sacrifice. latter pours a libation. Behind the pair stands Juno pronuba, thepresiding goddess of the wedding rites. On the right a bull isbeing led up to sacrifice, and on the left stand Venus, Hymenaeusand the Graces. (c) When night had fallen there followed the procession,…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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