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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26225942, member: 128351&quot;][ATTACH=full]1674931[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Two years ago I visited the British Museum in London and took this picture. These four gilded silver statuettes were part of the Esquiline Treasure found at Rome in the 19th c. They date back to the late 4th c. (under Theodosius I probably) and were ornaments of a piece of furniture, probably a chair or litter, for a high ranking Roman magistrate or officer. </p><p><br /></p><p>They represent the Tyches or personifications of the four most important cities of the empire. From left to right : Rome, Antioch, Alexandria and Constantinople. All have their distinctive attributes : Rome is seated with a shield, Antioch has the Orontes swimming at her feet, Alexandria (figured like Rome) holds a cornucopia, Constantinople (figured like Rome too but wearing a mural crown like Antioch) has a foot on a galley prow. </p><p>All of them are facing in a frontal position, but Antioch turns her head and is sitting on her rock, her body like an S., a posture typical of Greek hellenistic 4th and 3rd c. BC sculpture...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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