Claim: Statue of Liberty holds a torch above her head.
Evidence: The Statue of Liberty is a robed female figure representing Libertas , the Roman goddess.
She holds a torch above her head , and in her left arm carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with `` JULY IV MDCCLXXVI '' -LRB- July 4 , 1776 -RRB- , the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.