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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 3129182, member: 83845&quot;]Very possible. I&#039;m not familiar with the exact circumstances of the discovery and excavation of the statue (though the Vatican museum might have that information online).&nbsp; </p><p>I wasn&#039;t necessarily saying I think the coin shows Urania specifically more just used to pose the question of whether or not Strack considered other deities whose iconography might fit. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the time when I see a female diety in a museum holding a globe it is identified as Urania. Another example is this statue in the National Archeological Museum at Naples I saw recently as well. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]797987[/ATTACH] </p><p>Really impressive statue too.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is a Wikipedia image from Pompeii.&nbsp; No restoration on this one.&nbsp; It was preserved by the eruption. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]797989[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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