The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

She is depicted wearing a necklace with a crescent moon in the middle called a lunula. These amulets were typically worn by girls before marriage, but the presence of a lunula on a married woman ...

Among her carved jewelry are bracelets, a wedding ring, amphora-shaped earrings, and a lunula pendant—an amulet shaped like a crescent moon that Roman girls wore until marriage to ward off evil.