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Original scientific paper

Aurelia Prisca as Isis

Ivo Babić


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Abstract

The female portrait inside the medallion in the octagonal
building in Diocletian’s Palace in Split has thus
far been identified as Aurelia Prisca, the wife of Emperor
Diocletian. Later the same image was identified
as the goddess Tyche.1 The view is posited that this is
in fact a portrayal of Prisca that was subsequently redesigned
into the image of a goddess.2 I shall endeavour
to show that the manner in which the hair was styled
and the cylindrical object on the head point to the conclusion
that this is a portrayal tied to Isis and Prisca.

Keywords

Diocletian’s Palace in Split; Isis; Prisca

Hrčak ID:

217250

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/217250

Publication date:

28.12.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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