Fortuna Muliebris

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Fortuna Muliebris is a deity whose cult statue was stated by Dionysius of Halicarnassus to only be crowned by univirae. Tertullian may have conflated the cult of Mater Matuta with the cult of Fortuna Muliebris.

When

First attested
500 BCE
Attested period
-100 – 100
Historical notes
Roman deity.

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Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“However, the archaeologist Maureen Carroll doubts the reliability of Tertullian as a source, suggesting that he may have conflated the cult of Mater Matuta with the cult of Fortuna Muliebris, whose cult statue was also stated by Dionysius of Halicarnassus to only be crowned by univirae.”

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