Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century ... were independent. Other wealthy women chose to become priestesses, of which the most important were the Vestal Virgins.

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

The English woman found the slab in her garden about ... the result of Grand Tours in the late 18th and 19th century, when wealthy aristocrats would tour Europe learning about Classical art ...