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Aion found in the Tiber

Fragment of a white statue depicting a naked god entwined by a serpent with its head on his chest, found in the River Tiber.
  • Lion-head god found in the Tiber.

    Lion-head god found in the Tiber.
    CIMRM

  • CIMRM 503

    CIMRM 503
    Vermaseren's Corpus

 
The New Mithraeum
26 Dec 2024

TNMM 1054 ↔ CIMRM 503

Fragment of a white statue (H. 0.34). Mus. Naz. Terme, Inv. No. 4239. Found together with the following number during regularisationworks in the Tiber.

Figure of a naked Aion, whose body is entwined in three coils of a serpent. The serpent’s head rests just below the point, where the god crosses his arms on his breast. In his l.h. a sceptre, in the r.h. two keys. Traces of gold colour (?). The head and the legs, which he has pressed together, are lost.


Fragment d’une statuette de marbre blanc [H. 0m,34] trouvée, à ce qu’on m’a affirmé, dans les travaux de régularisation du Tibre. Aujourd’hui au musée des Thermes de Dioctétien (provisoirement au grenier).

Un homme vigoureux, entièrement nu, le bas du corps trois fois entouré d’un serpent, dont la tête vient se placer sur sa poitrine en dessous de ses bras croisés, tient de la main droite une clef (?), de la gauche un objet allongé très mutilé [sceptre].

Font défaut : la tête avec un morceau de l’épaule et les deux pieds avec la base. Travail médiocre.

References

MMM II 207 No. 22 and fig. 35; RRS III, 141, 3; Paribeni, Terme Diocl., 140 No. 287. See fig. 144.

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