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Statue of Isis- Fortuna

Statue of Isis- Fortuna

Figure represents the Hellenistic-Roman syncretistic goddess Isis-Fortuna, who was very popular within the Roman Empire. The whole statuette is made very gracefully and proportionally, with a face that represents classical beauty. The figure presents the Hellenistic form of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis (the hairstyle), Isis-Pelagia, or the Roman goddess Fortuna (the crown symbolising the control of human destiny), the Greek goddess Demeter (with rim of wheat-measure or modius), and the Hellenistic Pelagitatia (cornucopia, exotic fruit). She leans on her right foot with hip twisting right. The head is slightly turned to the right, decorated with the hairstyle typical of Isis, parted on two sides and gathered in a bun at the back. Above her hair there is a crown decorated with two horns, solar-disk, and two feathers. On the back of her head is the modius rim. She is dressed in a long shirt, hiton, without sleeves, which is cut with a neckline. She wears a cloak, himation, that goes from the left shoulder diagonally over the back, fixed around the hips at the height of her fingers. In her right arm, lowered and turned to the right, she holds a rudder; the left hand holds the cornucopia, full of exotic fruit.

Catalogue entry

Standing bronze figure of Isis- Fortuna
Archaeological Museum of Istria, Pula
The Collection of Augustus Temple
Inv. no. AMIP A 4620
Savudrija (Silvium Promontorium)
Roman Empire, 1st century CE
bronze: metal casting and processing
H. 9.2 cm

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