The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own open-access collection API record for "Bronze statuette of Tyche (Good Fortune)," a Roman bronze of the 1st century CE, acquired through the Rogers Fund in 1913. The title itself names the goddess of fortune with no hedge from the museum's own cataloguing.
Facts
Citation
PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
URLhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248790
Source TypeMuseum
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The holding museum's own open-access collection API record for the accessioned statuette, the strongest available record for its date, culture and accession number, whose own title names the subject outright. Connections
Associated With
Tyche, Deities This source names Tyche directly: "API record for "Bronze statuette of Tyche (Good Fortune)," a Roman bronze of the 1st century CE, acquired through the Rogers Fund in 1913."
Source Bronze Statuette of Tyche (Good Fortune), accession 13.227.8 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected.
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