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Lady Justice

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Lady Justice

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Also known as Justitia

deity

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Vinony's link graph records 451 inbound references to Lady Justice, and connects out to weighing scale, Roma and list of Roman gods and goddesses.

It is catalogued under topics including Heraldic charges, Justice deities and Justice goddesses.

Vinony links it to 48 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

In unicode
U+2696 ⚖ SCALES

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Gender
female
Image
Statua Iustitiae.jpg
Said to be same as
Dike
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Commons category
Iustitia
medical condition
blindness
worshipped by
Roman mythology
described by source
Pauly–Wissowa
different from
justice
domain of saint or deity
justice
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Encyclopedic overview

Statue of Lady Justice blindfolded and holding a balance and a sword, outside the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong

Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lady Justice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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