Nike From Samothrace
A statue set up in the sanctuary of the Great Gods in commemoration of a naval victory, perhaps by the Rhodians. The goddess is shown alighting on the prow of a ship, which was originally set in a rock-filled pool-the kind of landscape composition which seems to have been especially popular in Hellenistic Rhodes. She probably held a bronze victory-wreath in her right hand, c.200 BC. (Boardman, 1986)