Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty^[a] (officially named Liberty Enlightening the World^[1] and sometimes referred to as Lady Liberty) is a monument symbolising the United States. The statue is placed on Liberty Island, near New York City Harbor. The statue commemorates the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence. It was given to the United States by the people of France in 1886, to represent the friendship between the two countries established during the American Revolution.^[2] It represents a woman wearing a stola, a crown and sandals, trampling a broken chain, and with a torch in her raised right hand and a tabula ansata, or tablet where the date of the Declaration of Independence JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (1776) ^[3] is written, in her left hand. The statue is on Liberty Island in New York Harbor,^[4] and it welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans travelling by ship.^[5]

The Statue of Liberty is based on the Greek tod Libertas, also known as Eleutheria, the Goddess of Liberty, and was given a temple on the Aventine Hill in c. 238 BC.^[6]
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1. ↑ "Creating the Statue of Liberty". National Park Service. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
2. ↑ "Statue of Liberty". National Park Service. 2006-04-28. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
3. ↑ July 4, 1776 in roman numerals : see File:Statue liberty22.jpg
4. ↑ "Statue of Liberty National Monument". National Park Service. 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
5. ↑ "Crown of Statue of Liberty may reopen to public soon". Xinhua News Agency. 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
6. ↑ "The Goddess: Libertas – Mystical Shores". Archived from the original on 2021-10-01. Retrieved 2021-10-01.