 This link is further developed in two ways; firstly, her statue is described as being placed in the Temple of Venus Genetrix, where Caesar had once placed a statue of Cleopatra.Secondly, her possession of Cleopatra's pearls also reinforces her role as a female figure representing traditional "Romanitas", compared against the previous owner who was traditionally represented as everything that was contrary to Roman values.Her possession of Cleopatra's pearls is also fictitious, as Pliny the Elder recounts that one of Cleopatra's pearls was dissolved in vinegar and drunk by Cleopatra in front of Marc Antony, while the other was made into earrings for the statue of Venus that stood in the Temple of Venus Genetrix.