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| | The Portraiture of Caligula |
 | | It is far more likely, however, that Poppaea, who had been raised in a polytheistic culture, was willing to perform an act of worship to the Jewish God, as a gesture of courtesy to the ambassadors, without feeling the need to renounce belief in her own religion. |
 | | Poppaea’s cornucopiae would allude to her fertility, the occasion for her newly acquired title, and would identify this mother of an imperial child with the empire’s well-being. |
 | | Poppaea’s portraits, however, were probably scarcer to begin with, given her relatively low public profile, leaving fewer to escape destruction. |
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