Tyche of Constantinople
The Tyche of Constantinople was the deity of fortune (
Tyche of Constantinople appears in two basic guises on coins and medallions. In one, she wears a helmet like
The iconography of Tyche shared some attributes with
One tradition held that Constantine had a cross inscribed on the Tyche of Constantinople near the
References
- ^ Jonathan Bardill, Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age (Cambridge University press, 2012), p. 252.
- ^ Bardill, Constantine, Divine Emperor, p. xvi.
- ^ Martin C. Ross, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection: Jewelry, Enamels, and Art of the Migration Period (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1965, 2005, 2nd ed.), vol. 2, p. 31.
- ^ Bardill, Constantine, Divine Emperor, p. xvi.
- ^ Bardill, Constantine, Divine Emperor, pp. 252, 262.
- ^ Bardill, Constantine, Divine Emperor, p. 262.
- ^ Bardill, Constantine, Divine Emperor, p. 262
- ^ Bardill, Constantine, Divine Emperor, p. 262.
- ^ Averil Cameron and Judith Herrin, Constantinople in the Early Eighth Century: The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai (Brill, 1984), p. 36.
- ^ Cameron and Herrin, Constantinople in the Early Eighth Century, p. 236.
- ^ Bardill, Constantine, Divine Emperor, p. 315.
- ^ Cameron and Herrin, Constantinople in the Early Eighth Century, p. 25.
- ^ Ross, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, pp. 31–32, 61.
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