S18.2 TYCHE OF ANTIOCH

Museum Collection | Vatican Museums, Vatican City |
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Catalogue No. | Vatican GC49 |
Title | Tyche of Antioch |
Type | Statue |
Material | Marble |
Height | 0.89 metres |
Context | Found in Rome |
Original / Copy | Reduced Roman copy of Greek bronze statue by Eutychides ca 300 B.C. |
Style | Late Classical |
Date | - |
Period | Imperial Roman |
DESCRIPTION
The goddess Tyche (Roman Fortuna) sits upon the back of the swimming river-god Orontes. She wears a turret-crown, representing the walls of a city, and holds a sheaf of wheat.