GETTY COLLECTIONS

The Statue of Cybele in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Margarete Bieber

1968

52 pages

PDF file size: 12.9 MB


Description

This book examines a statue of the Roman mother goddess Cybele in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The author discusses the style and iconography of the statue and proposes ultimately that it is a divine likeness of Livia, wife of the first Roman emperor Augustus.