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Mosaic showing the baking of bread
Fornax was the Roman goddess of the bread oven (fornax ) or patron of the bread baking process. It was a kind of personification of the oven that prevented the bread from baking.
In her honour, the Fornacalia curiae , the oldest divisions of the city, created by the mythological Romulus of the three original tribes of Rome .
Sources
Mała encyklopedia kultury antycznej , Warszawa 1990
William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
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