Tyche

The goddess Tyche was a very important deity in the Hellenistic world.¹⁵ "She was not blind chance, but some order of affairs that men could not comprehend."¹⁹ Tyche played her part in great events and in small ones[…].

2000, Terence L. Donaldson (editor), Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, page 113, At Caesarea, several gems depicting a Tyche, as well as a possible statue of Tyche found at Caesarea, show attributes of Isis.

Tyche of Antioch

Tyche of Constantinople

Following the dedicatory page is the illustrated section II, comprising the representations of the city goddesses or divine Fortunes (Tyches) of four major cities of the late Roman empire.

The Tyches of individual cities featured prominently in late ancient art and coinage.