A ROMAN BRONZE ISIS-FORTUNA

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN BRONZE ISIS-FORTUNA
CIRCA 2nd CENTURY A.D.
The goddess standing with her weight on her right leg, her left bent at the knee, wearing a himation over a short-sleeved chiton, her right arm lowered and holding the top of a ship's rudder, holding a two-horned overflowing cornucopia in her bent left arm, her head turned to her right, wearing a crescentic diadem in her center-parted hair, bound in a chignon and surmounted by a solar disk and cow horns with lateral and upright plumes, on a socle plinth
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high

Provenance

English Private Collection, 1980s.

Lot Essay

For the type see nos. 311a-t in Tam Tinh, "Isis" in LIMC. This type represents the syncretistic goddess presenting more of her Romanized attributes of Fortuna. Her costume and hair do not display the corkscrew curls and "Isis" knot present on several depictions of the goddess. However, her identification as Isis-Fortuna is apparent due to the presence of her Egyptianizing crown.

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