In a cemetery, statues may be holding various items, symbolizing different things.
| Item | Symbolizes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Anchor | Seven virtues: Hope | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basket of flowers | Seven virtues: Hope | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blindfold | Seven virtues: Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bridle and bit | Seven virtues: Temperance | Breasts | Love, nourishment, comfort, abundance, protection, or motherhood.
| Breast being revealed | Seven virtues: Charity
| Candle / oil lamp | Seven virtues: Faith
| Candle / torch / flame | Seven virtues: Charity
| Torch | Seven virtues: Temperance
| Chalice | Seven virtues: Faith
| Clothes for the needy | Seven virtues: Charity
| Column to her side | Seven virtues: Fortitude | Cross | Seven virtues: Faith
| Food for the hungry | Seven virtues: Charity
| Nudity | Four possible meanings — The condition we were all born into; lack of worldly goods; virtue or innocence; or vanity or lust.
| Mirror | Seven virtues: Prudence
| Pitcher of water | Seven virtues: Temperance
| Ship on the head | Seven virtues: Hope
| Snake / dragon | Seven virtues: Prudence
| Scales | Seven virtues: Justice
| Sword that's sheathed | Seven virtues: Temperance | Two heads | Seven virtues: Prudence
| Warrior (helmet, club, sword, shield) | Seven virtues: Fortitude
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