Sacred springs and civic memory

Roman

Roman nymphs often gather around springs, groves, prophecy, healing, and the political imagination of early Rome.

Palette

Travertine, wet stone, votive copper, and black water

Water spirits and counsel-givers where sacred landscape meets Roman civic myth.

Egeria

Egeria is a Roman nymph or Camena associated with sacred springs and counsel. Tradition links her to Numa Pompilius, Rome's second king.

Roman · Fountain nymph

Juturna

Juturna is a Latin and Roman water nymph connected with fountains, healing, and the mythic world around Turnus and Aeneas.

Roman · Nymph of the underworld

Lara

Lara, also called Larunda or Muta, was a nymph who spoke too much and was punished with the loss of her tongue before becoming mother of the protective Lares.