This striding goddess is a Roman work in imitation of the early Greek Archaic style (‘archaising’). There are two others statues like this in existence, in Florence and Venice. Which is a copy of which, or whether they are all variants of an unknown original, is unclear. It is thought that this one may have been used as a cult statue in a shrine in Pompeii, and accordingly it has a greater air of solemnity than other archaising work, reliefs in particular