LANUVINA - Juno with head covered with the goat skin, carrying spear and small shield, and wearing shoes turned up at the toes. See Juno Sospita or Juno Sispita.
LANUVINA, the virgin who, according to the ancient Campania fable, was yearly sent to offer a serpent food in its cave, represented on a denarius of L. Papius Celsus, to shew his origin from the city of Lanuvium.
The same virgin is seen on coins of the Papia and Roscia families, offering food to a serpent, which is raising itself in coils before her.
A bronze medallion of Antoninus Pius, in the Mus. Piasan, exhibits a girl standing near a tree and feeding a serpent folded round the trunk.
The Lanuvinian serpent, or dragon, coiled in folds, appears on coins of Pomponia and Papia families, with the figure of a woman near it.