Hecate

This statue of Hecate is from the area of the Turkish city of Yalvaç.  This is where Pisidian Antioch and a Temple to Men are located.

The statue is of marble.  The statue is three-headed, four-handed, and she holds a torch in each hand.  Three identical exexpressions are placed on a single body.  She has a polos on her middle head and on the polos there is a crescent relief facing upwards.

The Greek Inscription on the base reads: "The Eutykhos and Symes siblings, the children of Hermos, and their relative, Aleksandros and Theimotheos, the sons of Rhuphos have commissioned this (sculpture)."

Hecate may have been of Anatolian origin and her cult was featured in Caria and Phrygia.  She was known as the goddess of night, magic, witchcraft, herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery!  Her abode was in the underworld.  As a goddess of boundaries images of her were often placed in doorways and at crossroads.

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