 Though this was unofficial, private cult ("sacra privata") its annual feast on the Ides of September, the same day as the Epulum Jovis, was attended by pilgrims from all over the region.Pliny considered this rebuilding a fulfillment of his civic and religious duty.No images of Ceres survive from her pre-Aventine cults; the earliest date to the middle Republic, and show the Hellenising influence of Demeter's iconography.