Monumentum
Aion of Arles
The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.
Aion de Arles
Monumentos mitríacos en Bourg-St-Andéol y Arles (Francia)
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
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Dressed torso of a standing Aion, whose head and legs got lost. The two hands, which he presses against his breast and in which he probably held a key, are broken off. A serpent, winding itself in three coils round the god's body, rests its head on the god's breast. Between these coils in groups of three, the nine signs of Zodiac have been represented in a graceful way.
Above from the left to the right: Aries-Taurus-Gemini embracing each other, the first of whom has a sceptre in the upraised r.h. and the other holds
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