Lady Justice - Floresville, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 29° 07.988 W 098° 09.453
14R E 581950 N 3223028
The sculpture is mounted atop a roof peak at the front of a Wilson County courthouse.
Waymark Code: WMYJ8F
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/19/2018
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Smithsonian Art InventoriesAlfred Giles was the architect of the Wilson County Courthouse. Conflicting dates for the sculpture are reported. Either 1884 or 1885.
A female figure wearing a blindfold and a full-length, draped robe, stands holding the scales of justice in her proper left hand and a sword in her proper right hand.
Wikipedia
Lady Justice is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. Her attributes are a blindfold, a balance, and a sword.
Lady Justice originates from the personification of Justice in Ancient Roman art known as Iustitia or Justitia after Latin: Iustitia, who is equivalent to the Greek goddesses Themis and Dike.
Lady Justice is most often depicted with a set of scales typically suspended from her left hand, upon which she measures the strengths of a case's support and opposition. The depiction dates back to ancient Egypt, where the God Anubis was frequently depicted with a set of scales on which he weighed a deceased's heart against the Feather of Truth.
Since the 16th century, Lady Justice has often been depicted wearing a blindfold. The blindfold represents impartiality, the ideal that justice should be applied without regard to wealth, power, or other status. The earliest Roman coins depicted Justitia with the sword in one hand and the scale in the other, but with her eyes uncovered.