Ceres Holding Victory
- Title:
- Ceres Holding Victory
- Collection:
- Cornell Gem Impressions Collection
- Date:
- 19th century
- ID Number:
- GI_03_064
- Accession Number:
- 03_2_0229
- Winckelmann No.:
- 229
- File Name:
- GI_03_064.jpg
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- casting (process)
carnelian - Subject:
- Ceres (Roman deity)
Demeter (Greek deity)
victories
allegory (artistic device)
Nike (Greek deity)
cornucopias (motifs)
headgear
wheat
bow and arrow
ships - Description:
- Victory holds a crown. Ceres holds a horn of abundance in her other hand. A modius with three pieces of wheat sits to her right. The bow of a ship peaks out from behind her to the right.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Archival Collection:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Gems Collection (in part the White Collection of Historical Medallions, #8420, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying material, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2013 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Caitlin Barrett and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.