Abstract
Hispano-Roman women intervened actively in the religious life of their communities, acting as priestesses or as simple devotees. The ways of expression differ from one group to the other, due to their unequal public relevance. The priestesses were often honoured with statues, but we don’t know their actual appearance because the sculptures associated with the inscribed dedications are not preserved. Anyway we can relate them to some known sculptural models. But in reality, we only keep very few generic images whose iconography is not always clear. In the case of the devotees, they haven’t left figurative representations of themselves. Epigraphy only allows us to characterize their low profile before the gods and their close links with their male relatives, although in some cases the display of their votive offerings makes them fully visible, even indirectly.
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