Mater Matuta, Etruscan, 6th-2nd C. BCE

"Question 17. Why do they not supplicate this Goddess for good things for their own children, but for their brethren's and sisters' children?

Solution. Was it because Ino was a lover of her sister and nursed up her children, but had hard fortune in her own children? Or otherwise, in that it is a moral and good custom, and makes provision of much benevolence towards relations?"

-Plutarch: Quaestiones Romanae 17

Mater Matuta. Tufa. 6th—2nd cent. BCE. Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia.

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http://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=4939

 

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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0212%3Asection%3D17