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Title:Bronze statuette of Tyche (Good Fortune)
Period:Early Imperial
Date:1st century CE
Culture:Roman
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:H. 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1913
Object Number:13.227.8
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Dohrn, Tobias. 1960. Die Tyche von Antiochia. cat. 7, p. 16, 30, pl. 22,1–2, Berlin: Gebr. Mann.
Bandinelli, Ranuccio Bianchi. 1966. Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale, Vol. 7. p. 1039, fig. 1167, Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
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Hemingway, Seán. 2021. How to Read Greek Sculpture. p. 42, fig. 28, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Popkin, Maggie L. 2022. Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome : shaping cultural memory and social identity. pp. 34, 39, fig. 13, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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