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26 Historical Review

Fig. 25
Bust of Dionysus, marble

Fig. 26
Headless and limbless statue
of the goddess Tyche, the
goddess of fortune of the city,
marble

The Statue of the Goddess of Fortune (Tyche) of Caesarea Fig. 27

The Tyche-Amazone type (Fig. 26) derived its inspiration from Roman A coin of Agrippa I, minted in Caesarea,
statues of the Roma Victrix or Virtus type – the deification of the virtues showing Tyche, the goddess of fortune
of valor and military power embodied in Rome, depicted by the goddess of the city, as Isis, mistress of the sea,
Roma that appears on Roman imperial coins of Nero from 60/61 on, on holding the helm of a ship in her right
coins of Galba, and later on coins of Vespasian. It has been suggested hand and a palm frond in her left
that this type of Tyche was brought to Caesarea by Vespasian and his
troops, replacing the earlier type of presentation of the goddess there as
Isis – mistress of the sea (Fig. 27). The new type stresses the link and
loyalty of the city’s inhabitants to Rome and its rulers.