The bronze statuette of Isis-Fortuna is dressed in long dress (himation), and over it is palla. The head is turned to the right. In the left hand she is holding a cornucopia, the symbol of Fortuna, and on the top of it is young Moon. She had curled hair, and a top of it she is wearing kalathos.

Her right hand is damaged and a ship's tiller on which she once leaned is missing.

Statuette of Isis-Fortuna was discovered near Šarampov bridge in Proložac in the middle of 1980's.

Catalogue entry

Bronze statuette of Isis-Fortuna
Regional Museum of Imotski, Imotski
inv. no. unknown
Proložac, middle of 1980's
Roman Empire, the first half of the 2nd c.
bronze
7.9 x 2.7 cm
bought, 1986

Resources

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