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

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Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

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Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.