Fortuna Redux

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Depiction of Fortuna Redux on a 2nd-century coin. She holds a cornucopia and a rudder affixed to the globe

Fortuna Redux was a form of the goddess Fortuna in the Roman Empire who oversaw a return, as from a long or perilous journey. Her attributes were Fortuna's typical cornucopia, with her specific function represented by a rudder or steering oar sometimes in conjunction with a globe.[1][2]

Origins

The

Imperial cult.[3]

Places of worship

The altar of Fortuna Redux was

Severan Marble Plan.[2] Coins indicate that the cult statue was standing, and held the rudder and cornucopia that are her usual attributes.[2]

Cult

Fortuna Redux was widely disseminated in the Western Empire as the

Geta from Britannia.[9] She also appears on coins issued by Septimius Severus,[1] Gallienus, and other emperors.[10]

Although her cult was established as part of state religion in Rome, the goddess received personal devotion from individuals elsewhere in the Empire, as indicated by inscriptions in fulfillment of a vow (votum) expressing gratitude for a safe return. An inscription from Glanum records a votive altar dedicated by a military veteran of the Legio XXI Rapax for Fortuna Redux along with the Celtic deities Glanis and the Glanicae.[11]

Related divinities

A form of

Jupiter was also cultivated with the epithet Redux.[12] The rudder and cornucopia appear as attributes likewise of the syncretized Isis-Fortuna
.

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b c Carlos F. Noreña, Imperial Ideals in the Roman West: Representation, Circulation, Power (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 140.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Lawrence Richardson, A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), p. 157.
  3. ^ John Scheid, "To Honour the Princeps and Venerate the Gods: Public Cult, Neighbourhood Cults, and Imperial Cult in Augustan Rome," translated by Jonathan Edmondson, in Augustus (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), p. 288, and "Augustus and Roman Religion: Continuity, Conservatism, and Innovation," in The Cambridge Companion to Augustus (Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 190.
  4. ^ Scheid, "To Honour the Princeps," pp. 288–289.
  5. ^ Martial 8.65
  6. ^ Noreña, Imperial Ideals in the Roman West, pp. 138, 140.
  7. ^ CIL VIII, 6944.
  8. ^ Noreña, Imperial Ideals in the Roman West, p. 261.
  9. ^ Erika Manders, Coining Images of Power: Patterns in the Representation of Roman Emperors on Imperial Coinage, A.D. 193–284 (Brill, 2012), p. 249.
  10. ^ Manders, Coining Images of Power, p. 301.
  11. ^ AE 1954, 0103; see also 1959, 0009.
  12. Robert E.A. Palmer
    , "Silvanus, Sylvester, and the Chair of St. Peter," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 122 (1978), p. 234.
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