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# The Calvatone Victory
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/viktoriia-kalvatone/
- Published: 2023-07-31T08:02:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:36:09.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, Art, Museums, Saint Petersburg

The Calvatone Victory. Ancient Roman statue, 2nd century AD. The Hermitage.

The inscription VICTORIAE AUG / ANTONINI ET VERI / MARCUS SATRIUS MAIOR records the victory of the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus over the barbarians.

Until 2019 the sculpture was not exhibited; until the 2010s it lay in storage altogether as a work of the Classical Revival, until its ancient Roman origin was established.

The bronze sculpture, found in 1836, survives only in fragments; in the 1840s German specialists restored it, adding the wings, the left leg and the arm with the palm branch.

Modern scholars suppose that it may be not a Victory but a Diana, since the original had no wings at all, only an animal skin thrown over the back. Nevertheless, in the restoration of our own day it was decided to leave one of the largest genuine and well-preserved ancient Roman bronzes in the Hermitage in the form given to it in the 19th century, and in which it became best known.