7⁵⁄₈ in. (19.3 cm.) high

Prince A. Jutizky, Paris.
Antiquities, Christies, New York, 9 December 1999, lot 345 (unsold).
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 13 June 2000, lot 324.

P. E. Schramm, Sphaira, Globus, Reichsapfel: Wanderung und Wandlung eines Herrschaftszeichens von Cäsar bis Elisabeth II, 1958, pl. 7a, pp. 17-18.

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The personified goddess of victory, Victoria, or her Greek equivalent, Nike, alights on a small sphere above a stone orb. Her left leg is advanced and she carries a large wreath above her head. It has been suggested that the ensemble was perhaps originally held in the hand of a large statue of an emperor. Cf. a denarius struck during the reign of Caracalla depicting the emperor holding Victory on a globe in his extended right hand, kept at the British Museum (Inv. no. 1930,0812.140).