This marble sculpture presents Hecate in one of her most distinctive ancient forms: not as a single standing goddess, but as three joined female figures arranged around a central axis. The image is calm, symmetrical, and highly controlled, yet its subject belongs to a world of thresholds, night, spirits, and divine protection. Rather than showing three separate women with different identities, the sculpture repeats the same goddess three times, creating a form that allows her to face outward in multiple directions at once. That idea is central to the meaning of the work. Hecate was a goddess of crossings, boundaries, gates, and liminal places, and the triple arrangement made her especially suited to guarding spaces where one realm met another. View Artifact: https://thevimu.com/hecate-triformis-c-50-350-ce/ Credit: CC0 Public Domain