Fecunditas

"Fecundity." An allegorical goddess of fertility, in particular of the fertility of the Roman empresses. The Roman senate vowed a temple to Fecunditas in 63 CE after Nero's wife Poppaea Sabina bore him a daughter, Claudia Augusta, although there is no certainty that this temple was ever built.

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Iconography

She was portrayed on coins with a scepter and with children on her arms.

References

Sources

  • Platner, Samuel Ball. (1929). A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press.
  • Tacitus. Annales xv, 23.