Villa Giulia Museum
Several large-scale terracotta seated statues and busts of Demeter and Kore from the sanctuary of Demeter in Ariccia were treated in an earlier post. More common however were small-scale images of deities and anatomical terracottas. The Villa Giulia Museum has a number of particularly intriguing examples of wombs that were dedicated in the sanctuaries of Etruscan goddesses. The terracotta models were presented as a prayer or thank offering for female fertility and the succes