Silver statuette of a divinity of Gallo-Roman age (I century A.D.), now in the Gallo-Roman Museum (Musée Gallo-Romain), Lyon, France. The statue represents a goddess holding in her hand an offering plate with two little birds, while with the other hand she holds a lot of fruits in the folds of her dress. For her iconographical attributes, the statue is attributable to the Roman divinities Fortuna or Abundantia, but it could also represent the Gaulish goddess Rosmerta, who has been interpreted as an equivalent form of the Roman Fortuna (Duval 1976, p. 102), even if there are no documents which could verify such an identification.
In every case, the goddess Rosmerta (or Prosmerta), whose name means “the Great Provider”, was considered the personification of abundance and was frequently represented with a cornucopia in her hand. She was regarded as the consort of the Gallo-Roman Mercury, and among her domains there was also the arts of warfare. As many Celtic divinities, she was associated with a spring, and was thus regarded as a healing goddess, but also source of fecundity, brought by the fertilizing waters (Monaghan 2004).


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