Fortune of Antioch
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The Fortune of Antioch is a personified civic deity represented as a majestic seated figure, often shown with the river Orontes as a youth at her feet. Statues of this Fortune were displayed in the city and later reproduced in a Vatican statue and a British Museum silver statuette.
When
- First attested
- 100 CE
- Attested period
- 100 – 400
- Historical notes
- The civic Fortune was a common Roman personification of a city's prosperity, attested in Antioch from the early Imperial period.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Apollo, Simeon Stylites
Mentioned by
Sources
encyclopedia (1)
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“A statue in the Vatican and a silver statuette in the British Museum perpetuate the type of its great effigy of the civic Fortune of Antioch—a majestic seated figure, with Orontes as a youth issuing from under her feet.”
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