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A Roman Marble Statuette of Fortuna
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Pre 1492 item# 1176511 (stock# AFORT)
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Artemis Gallery Ancient World Art
(720) 890-7700
$12,500.00
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Rome, Ca. 1st-2nd Century AD. Marble figure of Fortuna, Roman Goddess who is equated with the Greek goddess Tyche, an ancient goddess of the Italic peninsula. Her name means "fortune" and she is associated with both bona (good) and mala (bad) fortune, chance, and luck. This example shows her standing, with her weight on her right leg, wearing a tunic clinging to her body, revealing its form beneath, her mantle draped over her left shoulder, across her waist in a diagonal roll over the ...click for details
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