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Iris as Goddess of the Rainbow
Iris as the goddess of the rainbow, marble sculpture by Italian sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti, 1841.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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Head of the Goddess Anahita
Head from a bronze cult statue of Anahita, a local goddess shown here in the guise of Aphrodite. From Satala, Armenia minor, c. 200-100 BCE.
The British Museum, London.

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Statue of Goddess Isis
Granite statue of the standing-striding figure of the goddess Isis; her head is lost. Ptolemaic period, 3rd century BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).

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The Goddess Isis
Statue of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Made of tamarisk wood, covered in bronze and glass. Date unknown. Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

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Statue of a Sitting Figure of Goddess Sekhmet
Sekhmet was a lion goddess, whose name means "the mighty one", and she personified the aggressive aspects of other goddesses. Sekhmet was a daughter of the sun god Ra. She usually wears the sun-disc on her head. A famous myth recounts how...

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Sassanian Silver Plate with the Goddess Anahita
Silver plate with a full-length female figure standing in its center. She holds an arch above her head. Grapevines grow from the ends of the arch and fill the space around the figure. The female figure is interpreted by scholars as the Persian...

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Roman Goddess Flora
Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers, vegetation and fertility. Spring was her season and her temple stood near the Circus Maximus in Rome. Her festival, called the Floralia, was instituted in 238 BCE. This Roman artwork from the Hadrianic...

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The Norse Goddess Sif
The Norse Goddess Sif as imagined by English artist John Charles Dollman in the illustration of page 64 of Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas by Guerber, H. A., Harrap, London, 1909. The figure in the background is usually given...

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Punic Stele with Goddess Tanit
Punic stele with a crescent moon and the sign of the Phoenician goddess of fertility Tanit, found in Cirta (ancient Constantine, Algeria), around 300-200 BCE. Now in Louvre Lens, France.

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The Goddess Tara
Hindu-Buddhist goddess Tara, 15-16th century.
Ganga State Museum, Bikaner, India.