 Les attributs de la Fortune :
Ses principaux attributs sont : - La corne d'abondance. Selon la mythologie grecque, la mère de Zeus confia son enfant à la chèvre Amalthée. Elle craignait que le bébé ne soit mangé par Cronos, son père. Un jour, Zeus arracha par inattention la corne de sa nourrice, la chèvre Amalthée, qui l'allaitait.
The attributes of Fortune Its main attributes are:
- The horn of plenty. According to Greek mythology, Zeus's mother gave her child to the goat Amalthea. She feared the baby would be eaten by Cronos, his father.
One day, Zeus tore inattention by the Horn of his nurse, Goat Amalthea, which breastfeeding.
 Peintre d'Oionoclès On remarque Hadès (à droite) et Perséphone (à gauche).
Dimensions H. 28.9 cm (11 ¼ in.), Diam. 16.2 cm (6 ¼ in.) Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully wing, room 39, case 1 Photographer/source User:Jastrow, own work, 2008-03-15Wikimedia Commons Amphora Hades Louvre G209.jpg Musée du Louvre, Paris, France  Painters Oionoclès
We notice Hades (right) and Persephone (left). This is the detail of an Attic amphora with red figures, v. 470 Ave. J.-C, coming from Italy. Size H. 28.9 cm (11 ¼ in.), Diam. 16.2 cm (6 ¼ in). Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully wing, room 39, case 1 Photographer / source User: Jastrow, own work, 2008-03-15 Wikimedia Commons
Amphora Hades Louvre G209.jpg Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
La République française. Buste de Liberté à gauche coiffée du bonnet phrygien, ornée d’une couronne composite. Signé Morlon derrière. Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité- Essai 50 Centimes 1939, entre deux cornes d'abondance.
Source : http://www.cgb.fr  The French Republic. Bust of Freedom on the left capped with the Phrygian cap, decorated of a composite crown. Signed Morlon behind. Freedom - Equality - Fraternity - 50 Centimes 1939, between two horns abundance. Source : http://www.cgb.fr
Examples of horns abundance filled with fruits
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Classical Numismatic Group,Inc.
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Classical Numismatic Group,Inc. Les cornes d'abondance ont été très souvent représentées sur les monnaies de l'antiquité, qu'il s'agisse de monnaies grecques ou de monnaies romaines. La corne d'abondance sont parfois représentées seules, ou par paires sur des monnaies Séleucides, Ptolémaiques, Parthes, de Judée et d'Afrique du Nord, et sur des monnaies impériales romaines.
The horns of abundance were very often represented on the currencies of antiquity, it acts of Greek currencies or Roman currencies.
The horn abundance are sometimes represented only, or by pairs on currencies Séleucides, Ptolémaiques, Parthes, of Judaea and North Africa, and Roman imperial currency.
On the Roman currencies, it are attribute of various allegories, of which abundance and Fortune and sometimes the Harmony which holds a double horn d' Abundance on the currency Aquilia Severa.
Always on the topic of abundance, originality returns to the sesterce of Drusus (wire of Tibère emperor), of which watch two heads children who leave horns abundance crossed, with in background a winged caduceus.
It acts of the heirs to the imperial dynasty. Superstitious Auguste, made represent on one of his currencies his astrological sign, the Capricorn, behind which figure a horn abundance, reference to the Fortune which holds in hand the destiny of the men.
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