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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2510509, member: 75937&quot;]Taking a closer look at the later (~AD 210) issue of Julia Domna depicting the statuary group from the front, we see that she holds a Corinthian helmet (as in the coins of Titus and Julia Titi as well as the mirrors and the signet rings) and a palm frond, like the other issues of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna. Note there is a shield at her feet, as in the mirrors and the signet ring in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533883[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the coins and artifacts demonstrate that the iconography depicted in the statue of Venus Victrix in Pompey&#039;s temple to the goddess in Rome was well-known and widespread throughout the empire, such that engravers were familiar enough with its design to reproduce it from memory with a fair degree of accuracy, with minor variations in placement of objects in Venus&#039; hands, the placement of the drapery, and the placement of the shield at her feet.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were clearly other ways that Venus could be depicted apart from this particular statuary group as Doug Smith rightfully notes above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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